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...these advantages fail to convince the gentlemen who have made Columbia famous as the Home of Optometry, no doubt they will be entranced by the scholarship of Mr. Chesley. Etymology is his forte, for he explains that "spiritonomy" is a new word, part Anglo-Saxon and part Greek. And Columbia psychologists may be interested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPIRITS FROM THE VASTY DEEP | 4/29/1932 | See Source »

...Anglo-Saxon Entente," Professor Langer, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/21/1932 | See Source »

...defendants remained a speculative secret last week. Undoubtedly he was relying on the probability that the prosecution had no eye-witness to the Kahahawai killing, would thus have to content itself with a circumstantial case. That he would attempt to justify the murder as a matter of Anglo-Saxon honor by bringing the rape of Mrs. Massie into the testimony, bobbed up during the jury-picking. Judge Davis, however, was inclined to rule that Kahahawai's guilt in that assault had not been established in court and was therefore irrelevant. One report was that the forthcoming evidence would show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Mottled Jury | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...received generous dividends-$110 a share in 1914. $50 in 1916, $100 in 1917, $50 for the next two years. $17.50 and a stock dividend of 150 in 1920. The present rate is $4. Typical of a big company's line are such Dixon brands as the green Anglo-Saxon, blue Rapid Writer, Thinex, black Beginners, Lumber Crayon, red-white-&-blue Uncle Sam, buff & blue Bicentennial, purple Violo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Pencils | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

...died, slain in his own Cathedral. But one doesn't really know Becket until he has left his histories and turned to another of the arts. A poet has left behind a picture of him as clear and brilliant as the painter's Richelieu. Tennyson shaped this solid Anglo-Saxon in the mould of flesh and blood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/3/1932 | See Source »

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