Word: bayard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...August and part of September hunting for more of these endemic and relic species on or near the Long Range of Newfoundland and, although it will take all winter to work out the results at the Gray Herbarium, it is safe to state that my party, including Mr. Bayard Long of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, and my former student. John M. Fogg, Jr., Ph.D. '29, brought back more than 250 such species, many of them hitherto quite unknown any-where in the world. These plants were excessively localized, growing as small colonies on mountain tablelands or crests...
Damn Your Honor was conceived by Bayard Veiller, a tireless practitioner of the grapeshot-&-canister style of playwriting, and Becky Gardiner, recruited from the heroic reaches of cinemaland. It has a piratical hero named La Tour (John Halliday), a high-born heroine named Cydalyse (Jessie Royce Landis), five settings by Lee Simonson depicting various splendid aspects of Colonial New Orleans. When the buccaneer has gained the heart and boudoir of the Governor's wife and that overbearing villain has been duly cuckolded, there occurs what bids fair to be recalled as a line-of-the-season. La Tour discovers...
...academic year 1926-27, he served as assistant dean in charge of records and as instructor in history, and the next year he passed abroad as a Bayard Cutting fellow, mostly in Paris, carrying on research for his Ph. D. thesis, the subject of which concerns the early years of the French in Louisiana. Back at Harvard again in 1928-29, he served as instructor in history. He took his A.M. in February, 1929. He expects to receive his Ph. D. in June...