Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courtship was sudden. Her Irish bridegroom, Sandy, had a way with women and a gift of gab, but the police were after him. On the little Polish steamer in which Sandy and Greta made their getaway from Ireland was a mysterious party of five Englishmen. Leader was Andrew, brilliant bachelor Oxford don, who hid his heroic light under a staid bushel. Andrew was the type of true adventurer, as Sandy was of the shoddy. The expedition's real purpose was not, as given out, to search for butterflies along the Baltic coast, but to hunt through northern Siberia, with...
Loews Orpheum: "Biography of a Bachelor Girl...
When, at 77, George Eastman put a bullet through his heart for no apparent reason, he left his company in no confusion. For years the sociable old bachelor left Eastman management to a small staff of executives who decided all matters of policy by a majority vote. Last year when he reached 70 President William G. Stuber moved up to the vacant chairmanship, and General Manager Frank W. Lovejoy took his place as chief executive officer. Both have been with Eastman since the 1890's. Three younger executives were promoted to vice presidencies including Dr. Charles Edward Kenneth Mees...
Earnest Classicists and sentimental conservatives have combined in decrying President Conant's proposed elimination of the Latin requirement for the Bachelor of Arts degree. The first of these groups advances several excellent arguments to prove the value of a knowledge of Latin; the second propounds sonorous platitudes concerning "the badge of culture" and "the heritage of the ages." Since sentimentalists, concerned always with preserving some golden age that has had its existence only in their imaginations, are impervious to logic, supporters of Mr. Conant's proposal must turn their attention to the sincere students of the Classics...
...secondary school Latin or its equivalent in college Latin or in Greek is required for the A.B. degree, those who have not studied the Classics to this extent simply content themselves with an S.B., regardless of their fields of concentration. A regulation that produces such terminological monsters as the Bachelor of Science in Fine Arts or Music can hardly be justified without recourse to emotionalism. More serious than this perversion is the fact that the true student of science is not distinguished from his brother whose only claim to that name is his ignorance of ancient languages...