Word: doctoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Correspondents' dinner consisted of a burlesque news reel, showing the President as a "Doctor of Doctrines" singing a song to monopolistic big business interests, cracking a whip over Congress, and greeting small businessmen. The high point was a tableau exhibiting the discovery of the tooth which the President had extracted last autumn strung on the watch chain of a visiting Elk. The entertainment also included a glimpse of Vice President Garner shooting a cow instead of a deer...
Prince Johannes zu Loewenstein is not a roulette player himself. Scion of an ancient noble German line, he is a 37-year-old Doctor of Philosophy who lives in Vienna, a brother of Hubertus Loewenstein, prominent German Catholic. Passing through Baden two years ago, tall, solemn Prince Loewenstein stopped at the casino to watch a roulette table in action. He was impressed by the jitters of notetakers who tried to write down not only the numbers which turned up, but their colors, their positions on the transverse and vertical rows of the betting cloth and various other group affiliations. There...
...Dupont funds for advanced study in Chemistry has been awarded to Edward M. Fry, of Fort Worth, Texas, for the next academic year, the University announced today. Fry graduated from Rice Institute in 1931 and is now a candidate for a doctor's degree at the University of Virginia...
Series of five Hewett lectures begins at the Episcopal Theological School tonight when the Reverend Doctor Charles H. Dodd, Norris Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, addresses a group in the Wright Memorial Library at 8 o'clock...
...talents are catered to throughout. All that was necessary was to put the most obvious analysis of every situation into the tersest from and the simplest language, and to count on Mr. Young to do the rest. For example, when it is offered as an excuse to invite the doctor to dinner that he is still there, Roland drily explains that he won't be if he leaves. Some of the humor is indeed more complex than this sample. Some of it is even vaguely satirical. But none of it is funnier than his mumbled, halting, nonchalant announcements...