Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pulled out a pistol and robbed him of cash, watch, chain, collar button. Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Skippers Harry Pigeon of Los Angeles and Alain Gerbault of France, though not present, were awarded Olympic diplomas for meritorious individual sporting conduct. At Sloten, on a canal built 20 feet above the land, the University of California eight-oared crew, Olympic favorite, practised before astonished milkmaids, proud tourists. Dr. L. Clarence ("Bud") Houser, discus thrower of Los Angeles, was selected to take the Olympic oath for the entire U. S. team. One day, in practice, he tossed the discus 155 feet through...
Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, peerless in medicine, announced last fortnight its plans for the founding of an Institute for the Study of Law, to open in the autumn. It will not train practicing lawyers, but will conduct thoroughgoing researches into all problems of the law. The original members of the faculty are Walter Wheeler Cook (Yale), Herman Oliphant (Columbia), Leon Carroll Marshall (University of Chicago), Hessell Edward Yntema (Columbia...
...people-sightseers who wander through the State Capitol at Albany, N. Y., are apparently no bother at all to Nominee Smith in his conduct of his state's business. He even permits them to stop, look and listen in the executive chamber while he holds hearings as New York's chief magistrate...
Fascist Mussolini seemingly did not conceive that his ardent words could give offense; but Anti-Fascist Birkenhead, conscious that his icy logic must have offended, threw a concluding sop to women: "Though a woman may not take a revealed part in the conduct of affairs, we need not fall into the error of supposing that she has no influence in deciding them. ... I can make my meaning more easily understood by repeating a remark made by the Duchess of Burgundy to Madame de Maintenon. 'Do you know,' she said, 'why the queens of England have ruled...
...Castellanos, 47, was courted for several months by the Dictator, who announced his engagement in April, and then publicly broke it off (TIME, June 18) with the explanation that his fiancee had been seen on the floor of the Madrid Stock Exchange accompanied by two noblemen and that such conduct was "imprudent and inexplicable." Since then the Dictator has refused challenges to duel by the noblemen concerned, Conde de Cemira and the Duque de Almodovar, and has been cut by such great ladies as the Marquesa de Urquijo and the Duquesa de Montellano, both intimate friends of jilted...