The framing scenes, on the other hand, both take place in the late Spring of 1940, just at the moment of the defeat of France in the second great world conflict.

He was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931 ( after receiving his first Ranger Fund Purchase Prize at the Academy in 1930 ), and elevated to Academicianship in 1940.

But the continuing charm of the other children -- Sally in 1940 and Jack in 1944 -- and all John's success at his work only made Edythe's dizziness and general uselessness more glaring.

The element was first produced by Dale R. Corson, Kenneth Ross MacKenzie, and Emilio Segrè at the University of California, Berkeley in 1940.

* 1940 Peril at End House ( dramatised by Arnold Ridley )

* 1940 – An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbor during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October.

* 1940 – The Rhythm Night Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.

Weil returned to France via Sweden and the United Kingdom, and was detained at Le Havre in January 1940.

In 1940, shortly after the German occupation of Denmark, Bohr began his physics degree at the University of Copenhagen.

He arrived in London in 1940 at the start of World War II.

Thermoplastic glue may have been invented around 1940 by Procter & Gamble as a solution to water-based adhesives commonly used in packaging at that time failing in humid climates, causing packages to open.

Another was unveiled at St Mildred's Church, Bread St, London, in 1932 ; that church was destroyed in the London Blitz in 1940, but the principal elements of the monument were re-erected in St Mary-le-Bow at the west end of Watling Street, near Saint Paul's Cathedral, in 1968.

In 1940, at least 500 patients were deported from the Heil-und Pflegeanstalt Ansbach Medical and Nursing Clinic to the extermination facilities Sonnenstein and Hartheim which were disguised as psychiatric institutions, as part of the T4 euthanasia action.

From 1940 to 1943, the Italian Royal Navy ( Regia Marina Italiana ) established BETASOM, a submarine base at Bordeaux.

A portrait of Broadway in the early part of the 20th century and " The Great White Way " late at night appeared in " Artist In Manhattan "( 1940 ) written by the painter-writer Jerome Myers:

During the Battle of France in 1940, De Gaulle's 4th Armoured Division and elements of the British Expeditionary Force's 1st Army Tank Brigade both made probing attacks on the German flank, actually pushing into the rear of the advancing armoured columns at times.

Alston became staff artist at the Office of War Information and Public Relations in 1940, creating drawings of notable African Americans.

Barnard matriculated from the Beaufort West High School in 1940, and went to study medicine at the University of Cape Town Medical School, where he obtained his MB ChB in 1945.

A New York writer sent to Tulsa, Oklahoma in late 1940 / early 1941 noted an "... Oklahoma version of shag done to the Western Swing music of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys at the Cain's Dancing Academy in Tulsa.

From 1935 to 1940 he lectured at the University of Rochester and wrote The Clinical Treatment of the Problem Child ( 1939 ), based on his experience in working with troubled children.

In 1940 Rogers became professor of clinical psychology at Ohio State University, where he wrote his second book, Counseling and Psychotherapy ( 1942 ).

Some efficient designs for estimating several main effects simultaneously were found by Raj Chandra Bose and K. Kishen in 1940 at the Indian Statistical Institute, but remained little known until the Plackett-Burman designs were published in Biometrika in 1946.

Ernest Lawrence Thayer ( August 14, 1863 – August 21, 1940 ) was an American writer and poet who wrote " Casey at the Bat ".

He died in 1940, at age 77.

University of California in 1940

* Whitney, Robert W., State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920 – 1940, Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

That is the time when I left Columbia University, and after a few months of commuting between Chicago and New York, eventually moved to Chicago to keep up the work there, and from then on, with a few notable exceptions, the work at Columbia was concentrated on the isotope separation phase of the atomic energy project, initiated by Booth, Dunning and Urey about 1940 ".

* 1940 – Basketball is televised for the first time ( Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden ).

He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University.

He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich in Switzerland and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University carrying on as Stanford Professor Emeritus the rest of his life and career.

* 1940 – World War II: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his " Stab in the Back " speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.

Dean Ormsby Torrence ( born Los Angeles, California March 10, 1940 ), is the son of Natalie Ormsby Torrence ( born April 10, 1911 in California ; died August 10, 2008 in Los Angeles, California ) and Maurice Dean Torrence ( born December 5, 1907 in South Dakota ; died November 16, 1997 in Los Angeles, California ), a graduate of Stanford University, who was a sales manager at the Wilshire Oil Company.

In order to enter at a talent competition at University High School, Berry and Torrence helped form a doo-wop group known as " The Barons " ( named after their high school's Hi-Y club, where they were members ), which comprised fellow University High students William " Chuck " Steele ( lead singer ), Arnold P. " Arnie " Ginsburg ( born November 19, 1939 ) ( 1st tenor ), Wallace S. " Wally " Yagi ( born 20 July 1940 ) ( 2nd tenor ), John ' Sagi " Seligman ( 2nd tenor ), with Berry singing bass, and Torrence providing falsetto.

After weeks of practice, Berry, Ginsburg, and Torrence planned to record a demo recording in Berry's garage, but Torrance was conscripted into the United States Army Reserve forcing Berry and Ginsburg to record " Jennie Lee " without Torrence, with Berry's friend and fellow University High student Donald J. Altfeld ( born March 18, 1940 in Los Angeles, California ) " belting out the rhythm on a children's metal high chair ".

In 1940, he began postdoctoral studies at Yale University.

He has two brothers, Barry Voight ( born 1937 ), a former volcanologist at Pennsylvania State University, and Wesley Voight ( born 1940 ), known as Chip Taylor, a singer-songwriter who penned " Wild Thing " and " Angel of the Morning ".

In 1940 he became a professor of psychology at the University of Königsberg.

Bloomfield was Instructor in German at the University of Cincinnati, 1909 – 1910 ; Instructor in German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1910 – 1913 ; Assistant Professor of Comparative Philology and German, also University of Illinois, 1913 – 1921 ; Professor of German and Linguistics at the Ohio State University, 1921 – 1927 ; Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Chicago, 1927 – 1940 ; Sterling Professor of Linguistics at Yale University, 1940-1949.

The ' resonant ' cavity magnetron variant of the earlier magnetron tube was invented by John Randall and Harry Boot in 1940 at the University of Birmingham, England.

He was recommissioned in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a lieutenant on 1 April 1940, and worked in a number of military hospitals including Northfield Military Hospital ( Hollymoor Hospital, Birmingham ) where he initiated the first Northfield Experiment.

Significant contributions to the war effort included the development in 1940 of the cavity magnetron for radar, by the scientists John Randall and Harry Boot, at the University of Birmingham, and advances in communications technology and the ongoing mass production of valves, lamps and lighting equipment.

* Sir Oliver Lodge-( 1851 – 1940 ) invented the electrical spark ignition for the internal combustion engine, first principal of Birmingham University.

Two were run by Rover: one, at Acocks Green, Birmingham, started operation in 1937, and a second, larger one, at Solihull, started in 1940.

* Celtic Symphony for strings and six harps ( 1940, BBC Scottish Orch / Raybould, Home Service 24 July 1942 and Birmingham, 25 November 1967 )

Oliphant's group at Birmingham included Sir John Randall and Harry Boot who developed the resonant-cavity magnetron in 1940, achieving the short wavelengths needed for good airborne radars.

At Birmingham, in 1940, Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls had calculated that a uranium-235 atomic bomb was feasible.

**** Dominic Cadbury ( born 1940 ), businessman and Chancellor of the University of Birmingham

During the Birmingham Blitz, on the night of 11 December 1940, all but the fine tower and classical west portico of St Thomas ' Church, Bath Row, was destroyed by German bombs.

* Birmingham Black Barons ( 1937 – 1938 ; 1940 – 1950 )

In February 1940, Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls, while researching at the Birmingham University, considered the possibility of fast fission in uranium-235.

Very early experiments were carried out by Michael Clapham-who at the time was working on print technology at the Kynoch Works in Aston in Birmingham according to and interview he gave to a BBC documentary broadcast In Feb 2000 ( http :// news. bbc. co. uk / 1 / hi / uk / 643913. stm ) ’ Dr Philip Baxter at ICI made the first small batch of gaseous uranium hexafluoride for Professor James Chadwick in 1940.

It is known as the Barnes & McCormack Memorial and dedicated to two local men who were executed in Birmingham in 1940 for their involvement in the Coventry Explosion of 1939 in which five people died.

The cross was erected in 1963 by The Barnes & McCormack Memorial Committee in association with The National Graves Committee and bears an inscription in both Irish and English: " In commemoration of Staff Captain James McCormack and Company Captain Peter Barnes, Irish Republican Army, who for love of country, were executed by the British Government at Winson Green Prison, Birmingham on the 7th February 1940.

During the Second World War, the station was very active during the Blitz in 1940 / 1 in No. 12 Group ( controlled from RAF Watnall in Nottingham ) as it was the main fighter station for a lot of the southern East Midlands, and fighters from the station would often patrol as far as Birmingham.

After several unsuccessful applications ( the East Riding of Yorkshire Constabulary in 1939, Portsmouth City Police in 1940, Oxford City Police in 1940 ), in September 1941 he was selected from a short-list of six as Senior Assistant Chief Constable of Birmingham City Police, then the second-largest police force in the UK ; the salary was £ 1, 000 p. a.

* Church of St Thomas, Birmingham ( war damaged 1940, now St. Thomas ' Peace Garden ) 1826-29

Huxley was Physicist, Radio Research Board, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 1929 to 1931 ; Lecturer in Physics, University College, Leicester 1932 to 1940 ; Principal Scientific Officer, Ministry of Aircraft Production, UK 1940 to 1946 ; Reader in Electromagnetism, University of Birmingham 1946 to 1949 ; Professor of Physics, University of Adelaide 1949 to 1960 ; Vice-Chancellor, Australian National University 1960 to 1967.

** Anthony Maurice Gifford, 6th Baron Gifford ( b. 1940 ), counsel in Guildford Four and Birmingham Six appeals

The O Stock and P Stock were built for the Metropolitan Line and Hammersmith & City Line in 1937 – 1940 by Gloucester RC & W and Birmingham RC & W.

Michael Ruse, ( born June 21, 1940 in Birmingham, England ) is a philosopher of science who specializes in the philosophy of biology and is well known for his work on the relationship between science and religion, the creation-evolution controversy and the demarcation problem in science.