Word: goucher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...platform. Wide-awake, observant, she is a normal person with only a few such quaint fancies as Coca-Cola for breakfast. Unashamed of her age, she has on her stationery: "Established 1904." She likes cheap vaudeville as much as she dislikes tennis, bridge and other games. A graduate of Goucher College in Baltimore, she greets Manhattan moods with rapturous surprise, is convinced...
...Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt to wire quotable congratulations after viewing the picture. His able campaigning for Governor Smith and Roosevelt, his huge popularity (particularly among Roman Catholics) caused Funnyman Dowling to be mentioned a year ago as a possible candidate for Governor of Rhode Island, where his parents, named Goucher, christened him Eddie Dowling 36 years...
...became a cabin-boy, newshawk, music-hall singer, customer's man, drama student at Columbia, musicomedy actor. Although he has dropped his last name, he is proud of the supposition that he had pedagogical progenitors, of the fact that his great-grandfather and two great-granduncles founded Goucher College (for women) in Baltimore. Fond of corned-beef, cabbage, good beer and other Irish luxuries, Funnyman Dowling says he would like to be an official in an orphanage so that he could amuse the inmates. He was appalled last spring (TIME, March 9) when National Diversified Co., which financed...
...Goucher Girls, Goucher College (for girls) in Baltimore has a rule forbidding its students to fly to and from the city. Last week the authorities yielded to the coaxings of a dozen students, allowed them to fly home for Easter holiday in chartered planes. One ship took off for Newark. Two others headed for Pittsburgh. One of these, carrying five girls, got only 20 mi. west of Baltimore's Logan Field when low clouds turned it back. The pilot of the other Pittsburgh-bound ship, with three girls, lost his way in snow and sleet, was thrice forced down...
...first instance from the noses and throats of persons plainly suffering from colds. Those secretions they put through filters which were so fine that the smallest known germs could not get through. This filtrate they dabbed in the nostrils of perfectly healthy volunteers, among them girls of Goucher College, Baltimore. Enough of the "tests" developed colds to prove the filtrate the causative agent. Unfortunately Drs. Doull and Long have not been able to develop the virus in the laboratory. If that becomes possible or if the germ or germs which generate the virus are discovered, immunologists may develop a preventive...