Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Willis Joshua Bailey, 77, former governor of Kansas City's Federal Reserve Bank, onetime Congressman-at-large (1899-01) and Governor of Kansas (1903-05); of heart trouble; in Kansas City, Mo. Before his marriage, he was publicized as "Kansas' most eligible bachelor," received 2,000 proposals by mail...
Professor Kittredge has received honorary degrees from seven colleges and universities, including degrees of Doctor of Literature from Harvard in 1907 and Yale in 1924. He graduated from Harvard with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1882, and has been on the teaching staff since 1888, where he has held the rank of assistant professor, or above, for 42 years...
...novelettes make up his latest scourge. Mostly they belabor comic futilities, backgrounded by that darker "murderous destructiveness which makes people go on destroying themselves when they've nothing better to destroy." Most guileless, most amusing, is the tale of Oswald, "the compleat bachelor," who longs only for a continuance of slippered ease and financial assistance from his dominating aunt. An overdraft at the bank sends him to her for help. She, concerned that he is not advancing in a "career," gives him hark-from-the-tomb. To pacify her, Oswald, to his own horror, suggests that he become...
...courses in the City Planning School lead to the degree of Master of City Planning, which usually requires three years to attain, and for which a previous Bachelor of Arts is a prerequisite...
...toured Europe with his parents, under his father's tutelage. From 12 to 15 he went to school at Vevey, Lausanne, Geneva, Zurich, Leipzig. At 16 he entered the University of Western Pennsylvania, but when his family moved to Pasadena he switched to Occidental College, Los Angeles, took his bachelor degree. He first met Una Call whose second husband he was later to become, while he was a post-graduate student at the University of Southern California...