Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter. Perhaps it is his glasses, or his ingratiating air, or his professed fondness for aesthetics, which gives him the faculty of getting statements on vital issues where others have failed lamentably. With a minimum of apparent effort, he covers as much ground as any of his fellow football recorders...
...exposition of Charles Eliot Norton, the man. Enough has been said, however, to make clear to the younger generation his general character and aims. On that basis one may well cite a tribute which Mr. Norton once made to another great teacher, a friend of his and a fellow worker in the interests of the University--his sketch of the life of Francis James Child. Concerning Professor Child Mr. Norton wrote these words, and they fit not only the man whom they describe but the man who penned them. "To those who had the happiness of intimacy with...
...have fixed themselves most solidly in the industrial and political life of the British Commonwealth of Nations. The first Mond in England was Ludwig (1839-1909), great chemist, who migrated in 1862 and five years later became a naturalized British subject. First he worked in a chemical factory. A fellow worker was John Tomlinson Brunner (1842-1919). They formed the partnership which became Brunner, Mond & Co., and which has long dominated the British chemical industry. Brunner's second son, Roscoe, chairman of the company, killed himself and his wife a year ago (TIME, Nov. 15, 1926). Mond...
...could not walk without help; he could only teeter on his toes. He could not hold pen, pencil or eating utensils; fellow students were obliged to write his notes and to feed him in the college dining-room. Although his mind was keen and he formed ideas clearly, he expressed himself with greatest difficulty. For studying his lessons (he was good in Greek, Latin, French), he had an apparatus built to hold his books...
Lusty young men abhor the abnormal. A few weeks of Thomas Dwyer's attendance at Fordham and the kindness of fellow students abated. When he was fed, they (to escape nausea) kept their eyes away. They complained to Dean Deane. The student who voluntarily helped the crippled boy with his personal needs became a nervous wreck. So the dean last week wrote to Student Dwyer's father, a New York doctor, saying that the boy must be withdrawn and advising private tutors...