Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every man has a ghost," was the beguiling slogan with which a New York firm recently solicited Harvard business in a form letter received by a great number of the undergraduate body. In fact, on closer examination the services offered by this concern turned out to be considerably more than "ghosting," or rewrite work; it developed that the firm undertook to do research in any academic field desired, that a customer had only to wire to the company the nature of the problem confronting him and he would receive by registered mail a few days later a paper...
Last week Cricketer Hammond decided he could not make a living at cricket, and took a job with an English rubber firm. When the season starts Walter Hammond will walk through the gentlemen's door, and see his name in the score books as "W. R. Hammond." For, reversing the procedure of U. S. athletes, Walter Hammond had turned amateur...
...Harvard man finds himself cooped up in his father's broker's office, much to his distaste. He loses the firm's best customer, a stage Jew, and then loses his own job. Having learned that New Jersey is a place to go to for other things besides the Princeton game, he decides to set up a pig farm there. He changes to a kennel, however, when he stumbles upon Angus MacQuade, the man who in Scotland helped him buy Mr. Bones, his agreeable companion. He is pursued by his self-appointed fiancee, who has completely abandoned the feminine pretense...
...possibly teachers. But certainly the thought of extending them to any other profession was not considered. Medicine, law, and the other branches of professional careers were taught by practise. Today, however, it is unquestioned that these fields can only be developed by men who have first of all a firm background of the sciences and technical training which is primarily obtained in universities. In governmental departments this should be particularly applicable...
...shortly after the establishment of the Botanical Museum, George Lincoln Goodale, professor of Botany and first Curator of the Museum, was looking for a concrete exhibit to give the museum a firm start. He heard of the work of Leopold Blaschka, Rudolph's father, and went over to Hosterwitz. On the mantel were two models of orchids...