Word: dexterity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edwin Dexter Wadsworth Sprague, of Milton...
...electing Dean Madden to the Presidency, the Board of Directors (of which, simultaneously, Dean Dexter Simpson Kimball of Cornell's Engineering College was elected Chairman) had followed an oldtime Alexander Hamilton tradition. It was Dean Joseph French Johnson of New York University's Commerce School who, 20 years ago. founded the Institute. The second. President, Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, who died two months ago, was a onetime N. Y. U. accounting professor. Many a N. Y. U. pedagog has written textbooks, broadcast charts for the 358,442 students and "old boys" of the Institute...
...Seattle, likewise, the same tendency was at work last week. There was announced the merger of three banks. First National, Dexter Horton National, Seattle National. This merger, with $10,000,000 of capital surplus and undivided profits, will have total resources of over $119,000,000. What is more it will have a $2,000,000 securities company, with a name that could only be more imposing if written in the German fashion: First-seattledexterhortonsecuritiescompany. But Seattle is a city two and one-fourth times as large as Des Moines, and its achievement is of a different calibre...
...Ashville, N.C., City College last fortnight Dean Henry Dexter Learned gave students, including girls, permission to smoke in the college building between classes. An outraged Board of Education planned to meet and oust Dr. Learned. A committee of parents and students planned to keep him in. The Dean calmly explained: "If nobody smoked cigarets what would happen to the public school system of North Carolina? This is the biggest cigaret producing state in the Union...
...which was reported last month (TIME, May 20). They are in Utah. From one Utah well 3.6% helium can be isolated from the natural gases, from another 7.07%. This is unusual richness. The Government well at Amarillo, Tex., yields but 1.7%, the Helium Co.'s well at Dexter, Kan., 2.4%. A result is that the price of helium gas may be reduced from $35 to about...