Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...muscularly modest man who sits behind a white-vaulted door in University Hall has a tricky and unromantic job ahead of him. Dean Bender, who claims he is "not the kind of man about whom legends collect," faces the task of filling the shoes of two almost legendary deans, LeBaron Russell Briggs and A. Chester Hanford. With his work three fourths disciplinary and routine, he has to draw in the reins on his positive plans for the College while he carries out a policy that the Faculty has formulated. A narrow thread between Administration and Student, his is probably...
Stolen: Diana Churchill Sandys's jewelry-including her engagement ring. Winston's eldest daughter (Mrs. Duncan Sandys) lost some $4,000 worth of the stuff to burglars who turned up at the door with buckets and washrags, announced that they were window cleaners, were promptly admitted, promptly went to work cleaning...
...nights, they thought up everything they didn't like about Manhattan, and set their catalogue (streetcars, landlords, bright lights, door bells) into a chant. The chorus...
Last week, in a quadrennial report, Memorial talked about plans for its opulent brick-and-stone "campus" rising near the East River. Founded in 1884,* Memorial is the oldest U.S. cancer hospital. But its expansion to a university began only two years ago, is still under way. Next door to its eight-year-old, Rockefeller-financed main building is its new Strang clinic (for prevention and early detection of cancer). Nearly finished: the $4,000,000 Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. Also abuilding: a 300-bed municipal cancer hospital, which Memorial will operate. Among Memorial's ambitious plans...
Cadbury did not know last night if he would fellow the Scandinavian-bound footsteps of his next door neighbor, Percy W. Bridgman '04, who as Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy went to Oslo last year for the annual physics prize...