Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never noted for his powers of debate in Commons. But he was an adroit political tactician. He won his peerage for ''merging" the Lloyd George "Win the War" Cabinet in 1917, was made Minister of Information (propaganda) a year later, and in 1922 shoved his friend Andrew Bonar Law into the Prime Ministry. This was a shortlived triumph with a painful ending. Bonar Law died of cancer of the throat a year later. His last words for his little friend "Max" were: "You're a curious fellow...
Ernest E. Tyzzer, George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology; Andrew W. Sellards, associate professor of Tropical Medicine; and Granville A. Bennett, assistant professor of Pathology, have discovered traces of encephalomyletis, human sleeping sickness, in ring-necked pheasants...
That Whitman was a democrat everybody knows. But nobody has shown as clearly as Mr. Arvin what Whitman's democracy meant: stump speeches for the luckless Martin Van Buren, support for Tyler the Whig when Tyler took up Andrew Jackson's old fight against the United States Bank, disgust with party politics during the Democratic sellout before the Civil War, and always "strong images of a democratic and equal life-of 'ordinary' men and women working, building, making things, growing things, sailing ships, fighting battles, eating and drinking, singing, marching." Whitman was no Utopian socialist, says...
...Pittsburgh, at other times a statue-stuffed monument to the late steel-master, becomes the world's most comprehensive salon of oil painting. The Carnegie International Exhibition, assembled with shrewd relish by the Institute's Director of Fine Arts Homer Saint-Gaudens, costs the estate of Andrew Carnegie about $40,000 a year, enlists the services of scouts in no less than ten European countries. Last month an international jury† spent two days picking eight prizewinners out of 365 paintings by U.S. and European artists; last fortnight all the paintings were expertly hung in the Institute...
...famous course, Property I, is being given now by Walter B. Leach '21, professor of Law, and Andrew S. Casner visiting professor of Law from the University of Illinois...