Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just 120 years ago, in 1817, Ward Nicholas Boylston founded two Boylston Prizes for Elocution in honor of his uncle, Nicholas Boylston, who established the professorship which bears his name today. The awards stipulated a competition open to seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores in good standing in Harvard College, to be...
¶To save himself and his son from starvation, a poor man leases his wife for three years to a childless rich man. She fulfills the contract, bears the rich man a son, then returns to her poverty, her heart torn between her two children.
Since the stockmarket has been rising without a single major setback for more than two years, short-sellers have had a pretty sorry time. The last real inning for Bears was the great crash in whiskey stocks in 1933. Last week the New York Stock Exchange reported that its monthly...
Though past years have seen a let-up in the strict oratorical standards that once judged the contest, the competition still bears the hall-mark of the Daniel Webster era that engendered it. Of far more practical worth, however, would be prizes in public speaking. A striking witness to the...
A desirable post in the Protestant Episcopal Church is that of dean of a cathedral. Often ranking next to his bishop, a dean bears the title "Very Reverend," usually administers the cathedral, plans its services. For two decades a notable U. S. dean has been Very Rev. George Carl Fitch...