Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scenes you'll have to find even a better word than "able" for Clyde Tolson. . . . Incidentally Hoover is two exceptions. First, he is the only person who graduated from George Washington University and then really amounted to something. Second, he is the only native of the District of Columbia-male native-who has ever amounted to anything. As a graduate of G.W. and an oldtime Columbian I find that the time for G.W. graduates and District natives is in the future, history being rather cruel to them. Maybe Hoover is the first one of us to become great. Helen...
Reader Collier's information is interesting, even if not entirely accurate. Most George Washington classmates (1916) re-call J. Edgar Hoover's nickname as "Speedy," "Speed" or "Spee." Another District of Columbia and George Washington University boy who made good is U. S. Ambassador to China Nelson Trusler Johnson...
...human knowledge are covered, at least indirectly. Science is heavily emphasized, but art, music, literature, law, history, finance, commerce, each presents at least one specialist. The famous universities of the Old World will send faculty members to Harvard, and among those of the United States are California, Chicago, Columbia, Michigan, Princeton and Yale...
...They Were Married (Columbia) begins with a conflict between a divorcee (Mary Astor) and a widower (Melvyn Douglas), who pretend to dislike each other when they find themselves temporarily snowbound in a winter resort, quickly draws into the conflict the woman's small daughter (Edith Fellows), the man's small son (Jackie Moran). Having estranged their elders, the children manage to unite them once more by getting them jailed as suspected kidnappers...
...degree from an accredited college. About 23 years old, each is prepared to spend three years winning the seminary's lowest degree, Bachelor of Divinity. Other degrees a student may strive for are Master of Sacred Theology, Doctor of Theology and, jointly from Union and Columbia University, Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. (The degree which enables many a clergyman to call himself "Dr." is an honorary one of Doctor of Divinity...