Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conant took a quick shot at the Chemical business. He returned to the University for his Ph.D. and "he has remained there ever since." The choice of Conant for President by the Corporation in 1933 is also described. "The story is that Conant...spoke so eloquently of a friend's qualifications that the committee was given seriously to think of...him. It was the old New England story again, of the courtship of Myles Standish...the Corporation indicated that it would be interested in hearing further from Conant in his own behalf...
...Luce-like organization, who is trying to find out the meaning of the great man's last word. Thinking that this word, "rosebud," might be the key to the whole life of Charles Foster Kane, the reporter speaks to Kane's second wife, his business manager, and his best friend. Thus the story unfolds in snatches and flashbacks, often going over the same scenes twice, but from different points of view...
People are not expected to cheat in the Wellesley bike race. Perhaps this is because it is quite difficult to chest. In fact just about the only way to circumvent the law is to grab the tailboard of a passing truck; or have a friend over the next hill with a motorcycle...
During the war, Empson worked in England for the BBC; he married, and then returned to Peking National University, where he intends to stay. Last summer, however, he taught at Kenyon College, in Ohio-a gentle, wiry little man who, as one friend put it, "wandered around in a cloud of black beard, talking animatedly to himself...
Hill refused to make any statement last night, but witnesses alleged that he and a friend had cracked the old joke, "no my father doesn't work for a living--he's cop," in front of an officer in the lobby of the theater...