Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only a personal honor but an honor to the University that John Livingston Lowes has been appointed to be the first incumbent of the George Eastman Visiting Professorship at Oxford...
...found in some letter of Pulaski, published in Paris in 1786, a prophecy of the return of Poland to her ancient position of honor among the nations, and of the coming friendship between the French and English peoples...
...World engineering congress at Tokyo. Oct. 31-Mme. Marie Curie honor guest of American Society for the Control of Cancer, in Manhattan. Medicine...
...throughout Lorenzo the Magnificent: Lorenzo "was perhaps a coward, a man of no principles and very little honor, inconstant, an opportunist, frivolous, and Epicurean. But he was neither brute nor a fanatical hypocrite nor a lecherous beast. ... All he wanted was peace . . . the good things of this world, wealth, and fun and art and love and learning." CYRANO-Cameron Rogers-Doubleday, Doran ($3.50). THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON-Dmitri Merezhkovsky-Dutton ($3). THE PHANTOM EMPEROR: THE ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY OF NAPOLEON III- Octave Aubry-Harper ($2.50). Many U. S. citizens go to Europe. Few know any history except the Anglo-American...
...appointments to Committees and presentation of medals one wonders whether all the good lawyers in the country daily tread the corridors of Langdell Hall. But if the medals have to be given to somebody it is pleasant to know that Harvard is so often selected to share in the honor, and there is far deeper satisfaction in knowing that the members of the Law School faculty are taking such a large share in the work of making America safer for Democracy. For after all Democracy in a very real sense rests upon a proper interpretation and codification of its laws...