Word: alumnus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon to become an alumnus of Harvard, he is a living sample of the dream of our founders and fulfills our destiny is the words of "Fair Harvard": "from the Age that is past . . . to the Age that is waiting before...
...surviving founder of tony Tuxedo Park; in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. A Manhattan lawyer (later director of many railroads), he helped Tobacconist Pierre Lorillard III plan the 400's baronial super-suburb in 1881. Descended from early American landlords (the Irish O'Kanes), Kane was the oldest living alumnus of St. Paul's School, oldest member of New York's arch-Republican Union League Club...
This is Managing Editor T. S. Matthews. Oxford and Princeton alumnus, onetime TIME book-reviewer, he became junior Managing Editor for the so-called "critical departments" in 1937, switched to National Affairs in 1939, early this year took full operating command. His backbreaking job includes the final editing of every line of copy. He is a hound for making sure that the writers say what they mean...
Southern oratory is not very impressive to David L. Cohn. Born in Mississippi, an alumnus of the Universities of Virginia and Yale, Cohn has explored the purlieus of American love "from living room, bedroom, and bathroom" to lovelorn columns and women's magazines. And he has reached the most jaundiced conclusions...
Speaking in a dual capacity as governor of the Commonwealth in which the University has grown from such small foundations to its present size and as a leading alumnus of the College, Saltonstall commented on the contrast between the outlook for youth in America and in occupied lands abroad...