Word: cyrill
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...about 6 a.m. on May 13, 1920, Mary Wilcox smelled gas. She immediately identified the source of the fumes: the bedroom of her son, Cyril B. Wilcox, Class...
Mary had reason to be worried about Cyril, who, unlike his older brother George L. Wilcox ’14, seemed constantly to get into trouble. Cyril was far from an academic success at Harvard. In April of his freshman year, the Administrative Board placed him on probation for a month. And then, after a miserable showing on his finals—five Es, two Cs, a B and a pass—he was suspended. After a grueling few months at summer school, though, Cyril convinced the Ad Board to readmit...
...future hinged on the April examinations—but Cyril Wilcox never took them. At the beginning of April, right before the crucial tests, he showed up at the office of Professor of Hygiene Robert I. Lee, Class of 1902, with a bad attack of urticaria, commonly known as hives...
...result. A drop in tourism is something the Czech Republic can particularly ill-afford, since vacationing foreigners last year accounted for $3 billion in revenue - some 5.3% of GDP - according to the Czech Tourism Authority. "The situation in southern and northern Bohemia is a catastrophe," said Czech Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda. Vladimir Zunt, spokesman for the town of Cesky Krumlov, described his city - a medieval gem and one of the most popular tourist destinations outside Prague - as "Sodom and Gomorrah," with 2-m-deep holes in the streets and gas and electrical lines ripped out. The government...
...price-to-book (1.5 vs. 3.3) ratios. Because earnings are so depressed, the price-to-earnings ratio on many stocks seems high--in the 20s or 30s. Still, some believe that the Japanese market represents the best deep-value play in a generation. For that reason Cyril Moulle-Berteaux, who runs an institutional fund for Morgan Stanley, has his most aggressive stock allocation in Japan. "Everybody who's had money to pull out of Japan has already done so," he says, noting that Japan is not just cheap but a low-risk contrarian...