Word: comstock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...termite. When Snyder joined the Department of Agriculture in 1909, the most up-to-date termite catalogue available was one published five years earlier in Belgium. The Belgians had catalogued 400 species. When Snyder published his definitive work on U.S. termites in 1935 (Our Enemy the Termite; Comstock Publishing Co., Inc.), the number of classified species had jumped to 1,915. Last week in Washington, the Smithsonian Institution was selling Snyder's latest work, a paperbound, 490-page publication entitled Catalog of the Termites (Isoptera) of the World-a revised classification of 1,932 species...
...Jordan succeeded Ada Louise Comstock Notestein...
...College, is a room dedicated to Radcliffe in commemoration of the pre-war sister-college relationship between the two schools. A plaque in the room reads, "Veritas: In Knowledge and Love of Truth," words suggested by Radcliffe's affiliation with Harvard, and chosen by ex-Radcliffe President Ada L. Comstock during her visit to Kobe...
...thing, said Comstock, "learn something about the business you apply to for a job. Know what job to ask for. Don't tell an employer you'll 'do anything' . . . Don't brag and don't bluff. Any successful businessman can spot bragging or bluffing easily. He's been doing it himself all his life...
...Comstock Notestein, Radcliffe President emeritus, will speak at the reception, and a full-length portrait of Dean Cronkhite will be presented to the College, William Abbott Cheever was the artist...