Word: attached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professional dancers, science in clinics, social service in settlement houses and the Emergency Relief Administration. Government students will peer behind the scenes at Washington; marine biologists will peer through glass-bottomed boats off Bermuda. While music students make a round of concerts, art students will browse through galleries or attach themselves as apprentices to artists. A few intrepid girls will tend spindles in hosiery mills. At the end of February they will all be back on their Vermont campus at the foot of Mount Anthony to tell their instructors what they learned...
...Mayer). When Dr. Walter Fane (Herbert Marshall) goes to the door of his wife's bedroom in Hongkong, he finds it locked. On the hall table lies a polo helmet. From these two facts he knows that his Katrin (Greta Garbo) is sinning with a cool young legation attaché (George Brent). At dinner that night, Dr. Fane presents Katrin with a choice: she will leave with him for Mei-tan-fu, where cholera is epidemic, or she will marry the attach...
...cockney resident named Waddington (Forrester Harvey). By the time the doctor has relented so far as to offer to send Katrin back to Hongkong, she has decided to stay in Mei-tan-fu as a nurse. Dr. Fane is wounded in a riot and at the same time the attaché arrives in Mei-tan-fu to see how Katrin is making out. She gives him a short answer and hurries to her husband's sickbed, where they have a reconciliation...
...Mellon who made the offer of the scholarship, and who also cabled Hanfstaengl indicated that he would certainly make his offer of a scholarship for German study to the University again. This time, however, he pointed out that he was to make it merely as an American citizen, and attach no strings to the gift. It would be given as a grant for German study and without any conditions at all implied or stipulated. He hopes sincerely he said that with this new attitude the Corporation will accept his gift in the manner in which he makes...
...think it is desirable not to attach too much importance to the maintenance of sterling at a particular level. I have in this matter declared the policy of His Majesty's Government many times without succeeding always in convincing people across the sea. However, I'll try once more and say for the umpteenth time that the policy of this government is to maintain the independence of sterling. . . . We have never attempted nor are we attempting now to fix exchange at a given point or maintain it even within a fixed limit of values...