Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since early boyhood Inventor Gaisman, a bachelor, 60, has been having brilliant ideas. More than 1,000 of them have been patented. Swivel chairs, men's belts, carburetors have benefited from his inventions. And inventors are still spurred on by the memory of the $300,000 George Eastman paid Inventor Gaisman in 1914-for his writing-on-film patent. But his most profitable inventions have been in the razor field. He has created processes for making blades, has designed blades and razors. In 1906 he founded AutoStrop Safety Razor Co. which soon became important in the industry. Its chief...
...wealthy, forthright statesman who startled the Imperial Conference in London last week by crying "Canada First!", adding that he expected his fellow Prime Ministers to cry their countries likewise, was of course His Majesty's Prime Minister in the Dominion of Canada, the Rt. Hon. Richard Bedford Bennett, bachelor...
...Board of Trustees of Princeton University has recently abolished the Bachelor of Science degree. All undergraduates, except those in the School of Engineering, are to be candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts. This action marks the official demise of a distinction that had long outgrown any reason for existence...
...considered illogical to continue the distinction in diplomas." As the requirements are now fixed at Harvard, the difference between an A.B. and an S.B. may actually mean no more than that one man has taken three years of high school Latin to another's two. Beyond this, the "bachelor of arts" may have taken as many as twelve college courses in Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Mathematics, and only two or three in "cultural" subjects, while the "bachelor of science" may have taken only one science course, and fifteen in Literature and the Fine Arts...
Cakes and Ale: or The Skeleton in the Clipboard is a novel without a hero. Narrator is William Ashenden, middle-aged bachelor writer, through whose disillusioned eyes you see unfolded the story of Edward Drimeld and the lovely Rosie. When Edward Drimeld died his late-won position as Grand Old Man of English Letters was secure. His shrewd second wife wanted an official, respectably-mum-mifying biography, asked the popular novelist Alroy Rear to write it. But Ashenden was one of the few who knew anything about Driffield's early life. When Kear tried to pump him, Ashenden had reason...