Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...90th birthday last week Dr. House received nine bound volumes, each containing 90 greetings from friends all over the world. There were special messages from Governor Herbert H. Lehman of New York, Nicholas Murray Butler. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Mrs. Thomas Edison and the presentation to the school of a 90th Birthday Fund totaling nearly $5,000. Made up of hundreds of individual contributions, each was a multiple of 90, from 90? to $90. Mrs. B. Adjemovitch, wife of the Yugoslav Consul General at Salonika, went all the way to Belgrade to bring back special wax candles...
...hold on the Little Entente, which has lately been looking toward Germany and Russia with sidelong interest. First of these to fall in line was Czechoslovakia, which last week signed with Russia practically a duplicate of the Franco-Russian Treaty of Mutual Assistance, with the proviso that neither is bound to assist the other if France does not. Furthermore, France has checkmated Germany for the present. And it has dislocated Britain's lofty balance-of-power role in the League of Nations. Last week M. Laval set out to articulate his future program for Eastern Europe...
...Francisco last week, reporters found famed Helen Wills Moody on a station platform with a trunk full of tennis rackets, bound for Wimbledon where the All-England championships start June 24. Retired since her default to her ablest rival, Helen Jacobs, in the National Championships at Forest Hills in 1933, she explained that she had been practicing this spring, gradually convinced herself that her game was as good as ever. Said she, about her trip to Wimbledon: "I just made up my mind to go this afternoon...
Even when once achieved, the position of Museum Director demands many qualities other than those to be acquired in academic circles. A great deal of his time is bound to be spent in the role of a business executive. Likewise, he must be an accomplished diplomat, not to say politician. His museum exists through the support of the public and the rich patrons who usually make up his board of directors. He must, therefore, cater to these people, and with the money thus placed at his disposal, (usually with innumerable strings attached) he tries to maintain in the execution...
Besides the director there are often many other subsidiary positions in connection with the museum field. However, since they are under the director's supervision, they allow even less freedom for the scholar and are more bound up with the execution of standard routine tasks, few of which demand scholarly knowledge and training. It must also be pointed out that the financial possibilities for men holding these positions are rarely adequate; and often the locality offers but little opportunity for private research and study...