Word: dexterous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Island and looked across the water. They saw the 20-ft. tide of the Bay of Fundy seethe and storm between the rocky islands on the border between Maine and Canada, flooding the basins of Cobscook and Passamaquoddy Bays. One of the men was a promising young engineer named Dexter Parshall Cooper. His youthful companion, a rising young politician, was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Engineer Cooper explained a great dream of his: to throw a string of dams between the islands, harness that galloping tide to make electric power. Franklin Roosevelt's eyes gleamed with excitement as he listened...
Five students and one Instructor at Harvard University have been granted $3,551 in Charles Dexter scholarships for research in English literature during the coming summer at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge...
FROM experience, Dr. Dexter Merriam Keezer, president of Reed College (Portland, Ore.) has learned that heavy academic robes are stifling. Amherst A. B., Cornell M. A., Brookings Institute Ph. D., Dr. Keezer taught variously and brilliantly at Dartmouth, Cornell, and the Universities of California and North Carolina, but he was a fish that leapt occasionally from the dry bank into the stream to get into the swim of things again. He worked on the Denver Times and edited the Baltimore Sun, Reed College found him a year ago working on the NRA Consumers' Advisory Board...
...high name of Texas pride three smart Dallas lawyers put over a deal which was reminiscent of the Van Sweringens at their best. With $100,000 in cash they gained control of two life insurance companies with total assets of $170,000,000. Leader of the legal triumvirate was Dexter Hamilton, a brusque, 56-year-old onetime Texas judge who is general counsel for Southwestern Life Insurance Co. However, the company he counseled was controlled not by fellow-Texans but by a Manhattan investment trust run by David Meriwether Milton, son-in-law of John Davison Rockefeller...
...president, able, young, onetime Rhodes Scholar Alan Chester Valentine, imported from Yale four months ago (TIME, Nov. 25). The University of Rochester does not have to worry about the brainpower of its faculty, which includes venerable Geologist Herman Le Roy Fairchild; able young Physicist Lee Alvin DuBridge; Historian Dexter Perkins. But last week the University of Rochester appeared to be deeply worried about the tone of its student body when it launched a nationwide search for 120 talented, attractive undergraduates...