Word: dexterous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instructor newly appointed to Williams is Roy Lamson Jr., '29 instructor in English and tutor in the Division of Modern Languages, who has been named assistant professor in English. Dr. Lamson received his M.A. here in 1930 and his Ph. D. in 1936. Last summer he won a Charles Dexter scholarship for summer study in England...
...Harvard Press placed only one book in the select list, against four publications from Yale. This was William Browsters "Concord River," a collection of notes on nature edited by Smith O. Dexter...
...Died. Dexter Parshall Cooper, 57, hydraulic engineer who in 1919 conceived a plan for harnessing the tide which piles from the Bay of Fundy into narrow St. John's River so fast that a waterfall pours up-stream-a plan later half realized in the unfinished $36,000,000 Passamaquoddy power project; of a heart attack; in Boston. With his brother, the late Hugh Lincoln Cooper, he helped plan the Keokuk, Iowa dam across the Mississippi, Wilson Dam, Muscle Shoals power project...
...make mistakes. But seldom is any paper so unfortunate as was the exemplary New York Times last week. One morning the Times's sober obituary page carried accounts of two famed men who had died the day before, Fairfax Harrison, onetime president of the Southern Railway, and Engineer Dexter Parshall Cooper, father of Passamaquoddy's tidal-harnessing project. Each was illustrated with a picture. Unfortunately, the purported likeness of Mr. Harrison bore the easily recognizable features of John Jeremiah Pelley, president of the Association of American Railroads, the picture of Mr. Cooper the features of famed Army engineer...
...Virginia D. Virgin has charge of the campaign to suppress venereal diseases in West Virginia. Dr. Edith MacBride-Dexter has similar charge in Pennsylvania. In Illinois the executive is Dr. John McShane. Eighteen months ago these jobs were obscure ones. Then, with an article in Reader's Digest, Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U. S. Public Health Service opened a campaign to cure the 6,500,000 syphilitics in the U. S., prevent a new crop of 500,000 cases developing each year. First he was obliged to destroy national taboo against discussing venereal disease publicly...