Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a not altogether dignified chorus of disappointment and disapproval rose from within the walls of English universities. London University, which enrolls 3,000 students in the world's most imposing school of economics, had needed a man for its .top economics ; chair. The, school's director and governors had 'called from the U.S. able Economist Allyn Abbott Young of Harvard. While Britons grumbled and groused, Director Sir William Beveridge anything but mollified public opinion by admitting frankly that Britain had no suitable candidate. Sir Josiah Stamp, one of the governors, stoutly maintained...
Many a humble Boston officeworker, snatching a hasty and economical midday lunch at a Thompson's restaurant where food is balanced on the broad-arm of a one-armed chair and 50c buys abundant calories to sustain life, has all unknowingly lunched with the Governor of his Commonwealth. For Governor Fuller, rich today, was born poor; is self-made; eats luncheons at Thompson's in preference to dining at the Copley Plaza, the Touraine, the Statler. Born 49 years ago in Maiden (suburb of Boston), Governor Fuller left school at the age of 14, taking...
...gets himself called, variously, "crazy nut," "queer fish," "genius." His personality has exasperated staid Philadelphians quite as often as his paintings have upset academicians of the school of fine arts at the University of Pennsylvania, whose senior member called them "rot" in 1923, after Mr. Barnes had endowed a chair in the school. Dr. Barnes, in short, is a person who couples action with his unconventional convictions...
...would be exclusive if we insisted on playing the same institutions year after year", that "it simply asserts that we prefer to play the game as a same." The Editors, in their own page, chime in an active higher, and berate in a few semi-quavers the easy chair athletes whose howls mingle lugubriously with the dally chronicles of arson, murder, and adultery in the columns of New York and Boston journals...
...Sing Sing Death House last week sat Thomas ("Red") Moran, awaiting the electric chair. To visitors, Convict Moran made complaint, lamenting, however, not his fate but his neighbors. On the one hand he is flanked by Convict Julius Gibbs, subject to fits of epilepsy. On the other he has Convict Adam Nappe, who speaks no English, with whom no hours can be whiled away in converse. Disgusted, Convict Moran said: "This is a fine combination to be up against...