Word: dexterity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When quaint Dexter Merriam Keezer became president of little Reed College (Portland, Ore.) five years ago, he ventured a purely academic joke: that Reed might hire a good football team and special professors to keep the players eligible. Early next morning players, coaches and professors began to arrive in droves to offer their services. Dazed President Keezer sent them away, decided not to trifle again with so serious a subject. Last week football came back to plague Mr. Keezer again...
...Shorn of its wholesale division, many a retail outlet and mill, the company turned a 1937 deficit of $1,654,452 into a 1938 profit of $3,492,238. Last week, with three-quarters earnings of $1,718,458 up 58% from 1938, blue-eyed chubby-cheeked President Frederick Dexter Corley offered a plan and a plum to stockholders...
Started at U.C.L.A. by Fred Koebig and at U.S.C. by Dexter Fox, the movement is receiving the full cooperation and backing of various student and faculty organizations...
Other Cambridge residents have already received awards for this year are as follows: Bernard Barger '39, won a Sheldon Prize Fellowship of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Dr. Lewis Dexter, Harvard A.B. '32, M.D. '36, won a William Hunter Workman Scholarship at the Harvard Medical School; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, was named a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, on a three-year term; Herbert E. Wright Jr. '39, won the George H. Emerson Scholarship at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...passengers were persons from 20 States: six New Jerseyites, a party of ten college girls mostly from Texas, three geneticists returning from a convention in Edinburgh, four U. S. aircraft engineers who had been assembling U. S. planes for Britain. The sister (Maurine) and brother-in-law (Franklin Dexter) of U. S. Tennist Sarah Palfrey Fabyan were aboard. Since no U. S. lives were lost the incident was far less grave internationally than the sinking of the Lusitania (of 1,198 dead, 124 were Americans), but officials in Washington, D. C. expressed angry concern (see p. 13). Winston Churchill...