Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Business School Yearbook is now in its fourth year. The purpose of the annual is to help foster acquaintanceship between the students, who come from widely diversified sections of the country...
...five-dollar bill in the hand the equivalent of Croesus' sceptre, she has arrived at old age forlorn. Her house in Paris is tenanted by people who for two years have eluded the rent collector. She is in this country in an effort to recover her sight. Her foster son has deserted her. Her jewels are pawned. She has only the memory of her contemporaries, whose past brilliance still can cause her cataract-dimmed eyes to light up a little. Talking about them, she emphasizes her anecdotes with an odd, surprising gusto, amazing by contrast to her weak, quavering...
...boulevards she wore a metal monkey pinned to her hat. The monkey glands seem to have worked. Besides, contributing to her wasted body a pitifully incongruous alacrity, they have apparently preserved her against the dismal disillusionment of old age. It is five weeks now since her foster son received a telegram notifying him that she had come to the U. S. to undergo operations that may save her sight. . . . Meanwhile the Manhattan hotel has a bill of $500 hanging over her head. The cafeteria refuses further credit. It is only too evident that the world knows her no longer...
...have frequently developed into semipolitical feuds, greatly advantages Russia. Through it the Russians will be able to cross the frontier, probably only to a limited extent, to check any counter-revolutionary movement that may be formed there; for it is believed in Moscow that the British are attempting to foster trouble in Persia against the Caucasus and Turkestan...
...Roosevelt, on behalf of hiss fellow trustees on this Foundation (George Foster Peabody of Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; Henry Pope of Chicago; James T. Whitehead of Detroit; Herbert N. Straus of Manhattan) invited Public Health Director Martin to take ten of the Fort Worth patients to Warm Springs for free treatment until each patient should be improved, "even if it takes three or four years...