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Word: bearse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard lost one of its most conspicuous benefactors with the death yesterday at his home in Readville of Augustus Hemenway '79, donor of the gymnasium which bears his name. Mr. Hemenway, who was born in Boston in 1853, made the gift on his graduation; the gymnasium, completed in 1875 and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AUGUSTUS HEMENWAY '75 DIES | 5/26/1931 | See Source »

The collection which bears Professor Schofield's name was the largest private library in Iceland, and was purchased directly from its former owner, Kristjan Kristjansson, a merchant of Reykjavik, who had spent many years gathering it. It contains works both of mediaeval and of modern literature but is particularly rich...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NORDAL SUCCEEDS HIND NEXT YEAR AS NORTON PROFESSOR | 5/26/1931 | See Source »

Little Vivian Leichner, 6, wandered down a corridor in Cincinnati's Whittier School one afternoon last week and into a Natural History classroom where a William Harwood "of Leland Stanford University," guest lecturer, was showing children how tame a woman trainer had made two bears and a 200-lb. cub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Come On In | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

Suddenly the lioness leaped, snapped her leash, bowled Vivian over, hugged and clawed her. The bears snarled. All the children shrieked,

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Come On In | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

Hans Wagner was enrolled at Cornell in 1908-09. He returned to Germany and died fighting for his fatherland in the World War. Yet his name is missing in the War Memorial cloister, which bears these words at its entrance:

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell and Harvard | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

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