Word: interest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These fellowships, which provide for a year of study at Harvard, are designed to enable deserving men and women in the educational field to enlarge their backgrounds and develop special fields of interest...
...National Scholarship calls for a candidate from "that part of the State of Iowa now served by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad." The donor of the fund held the controlling interest in the line in 1909 when he gave the scholarship...
...rangy, Henry is a 34-year-old copy of his father -bristling eyebrows and all. He also has some of his father's food fads (he eats 1,300 eggs a year), doesn't smoke or drink "Never got around to trying"). But he has no interest in politics (he dodges questions about his father because "father gets castrated so often in print") and reads only books or magazines pertaining to his work...
...drawing room of the lonely castle, the English owner, Mrs. Tennant, whose son is away on active service, sits with her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Jack, and tries to talk about the only two things that interest her-her son and the reliability of the servants. But Mrs. Jack hardly answers; unknown to her mother-in-law, she is a mass of nerves trying to conceal her love for another...
...Miriam Van Waters, head of the Framingham state prison for women, brought her state-wide campaign to arouse public interest in modern penology to the Canterbury Club (Episcopal) last night...