Word: holder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clubs around Boston, the John Gorham Palfreys took their swarm of brown-haired, blue-eyed, wiry, sunburned children to the matches. On their own court they practiced what they had seen. In 1926, Elizabeth won the indoor doubles with Marjorie Morrill. Mrs. George Wightman, a resident of Brookline, holder of 31 national titles, came over in the afternoons to give them lessons. The Palfreys had learned by themselves those parts of the game that players not taught by a professional always get first-serve and forehand drive. Mrs. Wightman taught them footwork, volleying, trained them not to run around...
James Harold Doolittle, crack Army speed pilot, experimenter in blind flying for the Guggenheim Fund (TIME, Oct. 7), stunter extraordinary (first outside looper), holder of the Distinguished Flying Cross, announced last week his resignation as Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, to become director of aviation for Shell Petroleum Corp. On leave of absence from the Army, Doolittle lately completed a 7,200-mi. roundtrip flight for the city of New York, making a research tour of airports throughout the land. His entry into commercial flying is not abrupt. For ten years has Flyer Doolittle been a 1st Lieutenant, total...
...article again lays stress on intelligent preparation by the student during his college career for the field in which he is interested. To a large group there is a novel aspect in the notion that a high scholastic standing is more representative of the prospective job-holder's ability, so far as corporation executives are concerned, than a list of reference numbers after his name in the Harvard Register...
...raised from $30 to $35 while the first prize, which ranks second to the Lee Wade prize remains at $50. The Boylston prizes were founded in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston in honor of his uncle who established the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory. It is the present holder of this chair. Professor Packard, who is in charge of the contest...
...Memorial Hall Dr. Ham, C New Lect. Hall Dr. Kreps, F, Y New Lect. Hall Mr. Leighton, B, E Memorial Hall Mr. Ratzlaff, H, L Emerson D Mr. Shoemaker, D, R New Lect. Hall Mr. Stratton, K, O Harvard 2 Mr. Wernette, M, S Memorial Hall Economics 4a Ames-Holder Harvard 5 Homonoff-Wylie Harvard 6 English 6 Geol. Lect. Rm. English 11a Geol. Lect. Rm. English 50a Geol. Lect. Rm. English 85 Geol. Lect. Rm. Fine Arts 1a New Fogg Large Lect. Rm. Geology 19 Mallinckrodt MB 23 German 8 Emerson F German 9 Emerson F Government 4 Sever...