Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Root's prize was one of many given for the "best" solutions to the problem of where a stolen one-million dollars was hidden in the cartoon mystery. Root said that he believed the money was in a safety deposit box in Kernsey Jones' Bank, and that Jones carried the key around his neck. Jones in the story was president of the bank which lost the money...
Last week the AVC executive board decided to recommend that the fund, which now rests in a Washington bank, be used "to assist in the support of one or more Asiatic student whose studies at Harvard are intended as preparation for future constructive service in the regeneration of Asia." If the motion is approved by the members the money will be given next year to one or two Asiatic students who need...
...ophthalmologists examined patients who had regained their sight through the Eye-Bank, heard reports on new experimental work, discussed techniques, looked at movies of corneal grafting made in the U.S., Spain and France. An unusual suggestion for the future of corneal grafting was made by Dr. Mauno Vannas, on leave from Finland's University of Helsinki. If enough eyes are available, he said, it might be possible to correct such ordinary defects in vision as near-and farsightedness by grafting new corneas. The operation might, for instance, make use of contact lenses unnecessary. But eyes are still scarce. Only...
...member faculty had not been paid since mid-March. Facing these facts, President Benjamin B. Warfield, a 44-year-old Navy veteran, went to the college books for figures. The college needed at least $10,000 to tide it over until the referendum; it had just $35.70 in the bank. It looked as if Rutland Junior College might have to close down before polling day. But there was one asset in the college till that both Warfield and the trustees had forgotten to count: Rutland's 116 students...
...full Red Cross bloodmobile unit takes over the parlor of Phillips Brooks House from noon to 6 p.m. today as PBH opens its two day spring drive to swell the Cambridge blood bank by 200 pints...