Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Music Week (May 6 to 12) Association found out that Stephen C. Foster's Old Folks at Home was the favorite U. S. composition of the majority of 150 selected U. S. musicians...
...restoring Gwynplaine to his place in the peerage. There follows a superb scene: Gwynplaine appears in the House of Lords, first infuriating the members, then causing them to slap their gouty limbs in merriment. Disgusted, Gwynplaine returns to the lovely, blind Dea. They are blessed by their foster-father, a philosopher who calls himself "Dog" and his dog "Man"-a Hugonian touch, if ever there...
...Foster '01 of Newton is now the director of the Pollak foundation, an organization founded for the purpose of conducting economic research; from 1910 to 1920 he was president of Reed College, Portland, Oregon, and had formerly been a lecturer at Columbia and a professor at Rowdoin...
...what extent the scheme of academic contests, initiated by Mrs. Putnam will foster the general enthusiasm for learning in the colleges which adopt it can be determined only through experience. As to the dangers which this plan is liable to involve such as the advent of a time "when Yale men will wade into Paradise Lost for the greater glory of Yale" or the introduction of "the evils of spectacular athletic competition into scholarship" there should be little cause for worry. The want of "a good stage manager" and the "element of personal contact" should be enough to guarantee against...
...Foster-mother-in-law Step-War-mother. Stepmother...