Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hottest city in the world is reputedly the Persian Gulf port of Muscat, capital of the arid little (82,000 sq. mi.) independent Sultanate of Oman, where the average rainfall is only 3½ in. a year. In September 1833, U. S. Special Agent Edmund Roberts visited Muscat to sign a treaty with His Majesty Seyed Syeed Bin, Sultan of Muscat. In addition to reciprocal, most-favored-nation treatment of imports & exports, it provided that U. S. citizens rescued from ships wrecked on Oman's rocky coast must be entertained at the Sultan's expense. When he departed...
Even Editor De Voto's gentler essays had a way of breaking abruptly with jets of angry prose that popped out like steam escaping from a safety valve. "What," asked perplexed Critic Edmund Wilson, "is Mr. De Voto's real grievance? This indignation at other people's errors which seems to prevent him from stating his own case, this continual boiling up about other people's wild statements which stimulates him to even wilder statements of his own. . . ." Critic Wilson Follett, who praised De Voto as a "gadfly to all manner of intellectual softies," hinted that...
...Edmund A. Stephan 2L was elected president of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau at its annual Spring meeting this week. Other second year lawmen to take office with him on April...
President George B. Cutten of Colgate University thought that the university was always held responsible for what its paper said and that therefore "it seems necessary that some control should be held over the paper." President Edmund E. Day of Cornell University said that although the "Daily Sun" was usually well-behaved, the "need" for censorship might arise elsewhere. President Dixon R. Fox of Union College agreed that censorship might be necessary "inasmuch as it is perfectly possible for such a publication to damage the public reputation of an institution severely." And the reader paused to re-examine the reputations...
Members of the staff of New York's District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey, who is gradually emerging into national prominence as a righteous combination of St. George and Charlie Chan, at 3 one morning last week rapped on the door of a shabby apartment in West Philadelphia. "Open up," they said, "this...