Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second-class novel. The Oppermann family of Berlin had come through the War and post-War years with colors never below half-mast. In 1932 they considered themselves well and truly fixed as German citizens. Gus- tav, senior partner in the family furniture business, was a 50-year-old bachelor who enjoyed most moments of his ordered life. A connoisseur of women, art and literature, he frequented his club and the theatre and left the running of the business mostly to his brother Martin. Edgar was a world-famed surgeon; Ludwig had been killed in the War. Of the Oppermann...
...story he took up writing as a profession. After two years of free-lancing in Europe he reported the New Bedford mill strike (1928) for the Communist New Masses, next year covered the murder trial of 16 Gastonia strikers. Not a baptized Communist, 37-year-old Author Rollins keeps bachelor quarters in Manhattan. Other books: Midnight Treasure, The Obelisk...
Quoting President Lowell to the effect that "the Science degree means ignorance of Latin or Greek," Mr. Pennypacker said: "Many universities in this country which formerly offered two or even three degrees in their undergraduate college departments now offer but a single degree, that of Bachelor of Arts. Is it not time for us to consider the expediency of admitting all successful candidates without distinction of degree eligibility and making the degree finally to be bestowed depend on the nature of the individual's college work...
...first became an international figure in 1924. Amid a cyclone of charges and counter-charges Alexandre Millerand was accused of having interfered in party affairs, was forced to resign the Presidency. Politicians turned instinctively to the round little fellow who had never been connected with any political scandal, a bachelor, a Protestant, and after a lifetime in politics, still a poor...
...metaphysics but an attempt to examine the working efficiency of language, this book was the starting point of Basic English. His position as student of psychology and language has brought him in touch with many a learned head in other countries. From his Orthological Institute of Cambridge and his bachelor London house, crowded with switchboards and phonographs, Ogden directs a propaganda for Basic English that is now worldwide, numbers such potent adherents as Britain's George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Julian Huxley, America's John Dewey, Sweden's Sven Hedin, Japan's Y. Okakura. Small...