Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...engagement of Princess Ileana of Rumania, 17, to Crown Prince Umberto of Italy was reported by the Associated Press "on high authority." Premier Averescu was quoted as having said to a close friend: "I didn't get much from Italy (last September) except a throne for a Princess of Rumania...
...Excellency, sleek black President Charles D. B. King of Liberia is referred to by President Coolidge as "my great and good friend" (TIME, Feb. 18, 1924). Last week the great and good President had reason to beam with Afric joy. His Congress?composed exclusively of property-owning negroid Africans?has just voted to extend a helping hand to an Akron rubberman...
...adviser to the Cantonese r threatened once more to upset the Chinese apple cart, last week, was the sudden appearance from the North of some 36,000 troops under the redoubtable "Chinese Cromwell" Feng Yu-hsiang. Feng was driven into the Mongolian fastness last spring. Nominally he is the friend of the Cantonese, but the ways of the "heathen Chinee" are no more "peculiar" than those of General Feng who is a Christian according to his lights...
...Eliot became tutor in mathematics in the College during the winter of 1853-54, under the presidency of James Walker. With his friend and fellow-tutor, James Mills Peirce, he introduced the first written examination ever conducted for entire classes at Harvard College. In 1858, Mr. Eliot was promoted to be Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Chemistry--"the grade of Assistant Professor being then created for the first time in the University, with a definition that has remained unchanged to this day." He rowed in crews made up of graduate students and a few College officers, and in 1858 took...
...stood up in the pulpit to deliver long panagyrics. A close friend of long years standing, Dr. George A. Gordon '81, offered prayer, not for him who had departed, but for those who remained to carry...