Word: finlay
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Friday brought a series of forums on Bench, Bar, and Government; Medicine and Public Health; Finance and Industry; and General Education. The latter featured speeches by President Conant (second left above), Benjamin F. Wright, Chairman of the Faculty Committee on General Education (extreme left), and John H. Finlay, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature (extreme right). The meeting was called to order by Daniel A. Newhall '06, former head of the Philadelphia Harvard Club (center), and chaired by Provost Buck (second right...
...almost as magically compelling, in their peculiar way, as Shakespeare's. Yet both characters and story were plainly hard to bring to full life on the screen. The story is about young Pip (John Mills), a blacksmith's apprentice, who in childhood befriends an escaped convict, Magwitch (Finlay Currie), and a rich, decaying recluse, Miss Havisham (Martita Hunt).When Pip is still a very young man, he is snatched from poverty into Great Expectations. Miss Havisham's subtle attorney Jaggers (F. L. Sullivan) holds a fortune in trust for him, the gift of an anonymous benefactor...
...help out Captain Wes Flint in the 110-yard high and 220-yard low hurdles, as will Pat McCormick, Interscholastic champion from Cleveland. Flint, third in the IC4A Indoor 60-yard highs, and considered unbeatable in the 220 lows outdoors, will continue his rivalry with Yale's Cook and Finlay on the cinders...
Laid in Cuba in 1900, Yellow Jack shows a frustrated and not yet famous Walter Reed, and the doctors under him, deciding rather desperately to test out Cuban Dr. Carlos Finlay's long-held theory that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes. The test is hazardous, for since only human beings get yellow fever, only human beings can serve as guinea pigs.* The first tests, moreover, are bungled; but eventually, after an Army doctor has died, a soldier has been inoculated by press-gang methods, and four others have become guinea pigs voluntarily, experiment turns into proof...
...Cecil's second letter, written last October, asked for international courts to try arch war criminals like Hitler, Himmler, Mussolini. The answer, which arrived three months later, said: no. A fortnight ago Sir Cecil wrote a third letter: his resignation. This week he was succeeded by Lord Justice Finlay, eminent British jurist...