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... Ambassador to the World Booh Reviews E. F. Knox GENERAL SMUTS (he did not like being called Field-Marshal) was the philosopher-statesman. But he was also a well-tried soldier and a very acute lawyer. One would have to search the history of the world for a long ...
... ELIZABETH I OF ENGLAND Milton Waldman's Brief Biography When we speak or write of the Elizabethan age-- and there is a strong inclination at the outset of a new Queen Elizabeth's reign to glance back across the centuries-- we think in terms of the spacious ...
... described a method of making phosphorus from bone ash, but it was not until 1844 that white phosphorus came into general use in England and that Arthur Albright began his researches, which led him to the slaughter-houses of Galatz in search of raw material ...
... with the survivors of a shipwreck cast up on a desert island. He does not need to remind us that there are desert islands left in the world, and not only atolls used for atomic bombing practice, for like his Mr. Justice Sheilbron, who conducts the enquiry ...
... 4-m. diameter and are connected with the fusees by heavy five-link chains. Tompion used gut for most of his spring-clocks, but when he wanted greater strength he used chain. The superb craftsmanship of Tompion's movement is equalled by the sumptuousness ...
... cross-roads of the world and thereby fulfilling the great mission of a scattered but undivided people. Men are only now really waking up to the fact that the heavens can be navigated, explored and enjoyed in silence. Knowledge and skill in the use of the sailplane ...
... matter of note to the world at large, sometimes amused, sometimes apprehensive, that under adversity, the English behave in the oddest way. But I do not think that even the most quick-witted foreigner with the keenest perceptions about us would have guessed ...
... Leipzig, and thereafter the flow of guide-books was unceasing, covering in time the greater part of the civilised world. The Second World War was a severe blow to Baedeker s, but now, with rapidly reviving Hamburg as its headquarters, the guide books are ...
... are not porpoises. A great mistake, old man, if you don't mind my saying so. Everybody has known an Apthorpe, in World War I. and World War II., and maybe in a hundred other wars. But nobody could describe him with such deli cate and indelicate delight ...
... customs and traditions, resents, like his own people, the patronising strangers, dripping with pompous schemes to educate us and colonise us on their planned housing estates, to redistribute our industries, and reshape our taste for sport. His constant plea ...
... day-to-day activities Lieut. -Colonel Alfred H. Burne follows up his book, The Battlefields of England, with its logical sequel, MORE BATTLEFIELDS OF ENGLAND (Methuen. 21s.). Once again he ranges far and wide, from Otterburn, on the Scottish border, to ...
... the railway. Mr. Shute's heroine is an English girl who uses a legacy to visit Australian relations, falls in love with a doctor who has spent the war in the German Army, and returns to England, that country of perpetual drizzle and weak tea, to work ...