Word: dawson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...controlled by the Baptists of Alabama. . . . No teacher is employed in the institution who is not a professed Christian and with rare exception all of the teaching force belong to the Baptist faith. . . . The students take seriously the fact that Howard is a Christian college. . . ."-President John C. Dawson of Howard College in the college catalog. At Howard last week, up stood Horace Calvin Day, associate professor of biology, to demonstrate in a chapel talk to the students that perhaps the intellectual and the spiritual do not always embrace each other in the manner President Dawson suggests...
...first time I visited Buckingham Palace as a guest of the King, a distinguished looking man, whom I had been informed was Lord Dawson, came and shook my hand in a most familiar fashion, saying. 'Have you forgotten...
...Dawson of Penn," a frock-coated name, a faintly snobbish name, precisely the right name for the King's Physician in Ordinary ?so thought many a U. S. citizen last year when George V lay near Death and the sun never set on fresh bulletins signed "Dawson of Penn" (TIME...
Last week, on the first anniversary of the day George V fell ill, the Royal Society of Medicine celebrated with a banquet. The Prime Minister of Great Britain was there to tell a little story in his warm Scotch way. Baron Dawson proposed His Majesty's health, adding in impeccable bedside tones: "Tonight is a suitable moment to state that the King in his recovery goes on from strength to strength...
...John Dawson, chubby-cheeked 26-year-old Chicagoan, played the best U. S. golf and until the semifinals, where he met and was defeated by Scottish Golfer John Norton Smith, seemed likely to win the cup. The Dawson golf, like the Dawson face, resembles that of Robert Tyre Jones Jr. Golfer Dawson has learned a wisdom few able amateurs achieve: to prefer a safe four to a perilous three. But Golfer Dawson was troubled less last week by fours than by fives, sixes, and once a seven. Nevertheless during the last nine of the semi-finals he found himself...