Word: dexterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Junior Dexter, J. M. Galanis '29, M. V. Copeland '29, H. H. Gledhill '29, R. S. Winslow '29, H. B. Wells...
...winners of the Senior, Junior and Freshman class tennis tournaments were announced last night. F. W. P. Lorenzen '28, S. O. Dexter '29, and J. D. Evans '31, are the victors in their respective classes K. B. Daggett '30 has already been announced as the Sophomore court champion...
...Robert Mearns Yerkes, famed Yale psychologist, visited her in 1926; gave her many intelligence tests; was impressed by her clarity of thought, her apparent willingness to cooperate. Other scientists were equally interested. A year and a half ago, Dr. Adolph Hans Schultz, anatomist of Johns Hopkins University, wrote to Dexter Fellowes of the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus, asking for Miss Congo's body when she died. Life then seemed just beginning for the growing gorilla girl. She lived on the Ringling estate waiting to grow up; then to step into a feature part on the Ringling program. Last...
Mayor "Bossy" Gillis was not Newburyport's first eccentric hero. Late in the 18th century, an illiterate tanner named Timothy Dexter, who had made a fortune in Continentals, moved to Newburyport and there performed commercial prodigies. He shipped mittens and warming pans to the West Indies, coal cargoes to Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He cornered the whale- bone market. His profits startled...
Styling himself "Lord," Timothy Dexter crowned a haddock-hawker his poet laureate with a wreath of parsley. He drank copiously, published incessant screeds of his own and built a house which bristled with minarets and was approached through a triumphal arch surmounted with wooden statues of heroes, from Adam to Timothy Dexter, at whom, as at "'Bossy" Gillis, the world gaped...