Word: bound
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ohio State University, seven pacifist students who refused to take R.O.T.C. on the ground that they were conscience-bound to oppose military training in any form, were expelled. . . . At City College, New York, thirty-four students were expelled or suspended for "past activities," which turned out to be parades of protest against the continuance of military training at a liberal college...
...agreement Mr. Van Sweringen signed was for the sale of $10,000,000 in government bonds from Van Sweringen Corp. to Union Trust Co., of which Joseph R. Nutt was chairman. The bonds were on deposit with J. P. Morgan & Co. against a Van Sweringen loan and were bound by indenture to stay there. But, said the grand jury, the Trust Company used its right of purchase to "window dress" its statement of financial condition in September, making it appear that saleable assets were higher than they really were. That was not all. Mr. Nutt had persuaded Mr. Van Sweringen...
...neat little cloth-bound book appearing in September will be the honor given by the Phi Beta Kappa to the undergraduate whose essay is considered by the Committee the best piece of work done during this college year. Departmental and Bowdoin Prize essays will constitute the field from which the essay to be published will be chosen. In commenting on the newest activity of the honorary society here, Professor Chase said, "This is an admirable scheme and a very profitable one for Phi Beta Kappa to undertake. I am much in favor...
Professor Tozzer gives all the lectures in the course and although he doesn't attempt to hold his listeners spell-bound he manages to keep the audience awake, which is more than some lecturers can boast. Slides, almost every week liven up the work, and make the students tear their hair when tested on them at the end of the year. If a man wants to become acquainted with the University Museum, which, by the way, is quite a fascinating morgue, the Museum Walks in Anthropology 1 will do the trick...
Aboard S. S. Roma, Sicily-bound out of New York, Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie, assaultee in Honolulu's great 1932 rape case, divorced two months ago, slashed both her wrists with a razorblade, moaned: "I wanted to die." Sewn up, she was hospitalized, landed at Genoa. Hospitalized ashore, she smiled at her doctor: "I am going to die. You may stop me now. But I will show you. I might cut my wrists again...