Word: former
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foot just as she was going over the rail. In the ship's hospital Dr. Thomas Fister was sent spinning with bottles, instruments, in water up to his knees, staggered back to aid the engine-room storekeeper, whose appendix he had just removed. Paul van Zeeland, former Premier of Belgium, in his cabin with his wife and four children, was knocked unconscious. A kettle of boiling water and grease engulfed Fred Stover, chief butcher. Mrs. Tatiana Sztybel, refugee from the siege of Warsaw, was hurled against a wall like a rag doll, left moaning with a badly injured spine...
...Poland's prominent refugees were as fortunate as the gold: > Still waiting to be released from internment in Rumania was 72-year-old former President Ignacy Moscicki. He has applied for permission to go to Fribourg, Switzerland, where he was once a chemistry professor. The Rumanian Government would gladly have released the old President, but the German Government objected, and Rumania just now fears crossing Germany...
...entrant is Eunice Martin of Waltham, a former American Legion state champion and a colleague of Ruth Butterfield, B.U. batonetter. There was a commercial tie-up in the minds of some of the aspirants. If the dozen or more applications for the post at the Employment Office are any indication...
...Former President A. Lawrence Lowell entered the neutrality debate at Washington yesterday, urging immediate repeal of the "detrimental" arms embargo in a letter which was published in the Congressional Record...
Yesterday Mr. Conant began his speech by asking the question whether a "free and classless society" was a valid ideal or an illusion. Thereupon he set out to prove that the former was true. His argument might be staked out in two claims: first, that the essence of a classless society is a high degree of "social mobility"--or equality of opportunity for each member of a new generation regardless of his inherited social position; and second, that this social mobility can be largely obtained by, education. After hearing him out, most of his listeners must have been unconvinced...