Word: janes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...High citizenship expectancy" is a quality which, so f ar as it could be gauged by competitive tests, distinguished four 9th grade schoolboys who last month were awarded the first Emily Jane Culver Scholarships given by Culver Military Academy at Culver, Ind. These four, who are in the upper third of their classes, "emotionally stable and in good health, possessed of ambition and a settled purpose in life," are George R. Koons, 14, of Chicago, Guy Barry, 15, of Portage, Mich., Robert Ernst Carroll, 14, of Fall River, Mass, and Campbell Gould, of Toledo. Unable otherwise to attend Culver...
...years ago that most useful of naval registers, Jane's Fighting Ships, commented pithily on the Yawuz Sultan Selim: "Present condition is very bad, as all but two of her 24 boilers are out of action, and there are two unrepaired holes in hull below water line . . . has probably had more narrow escapes from destruction than any other dreadnought or battle cruiser in existence...
...Earl of Pembroke's estate. Near neighbor is Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer?TIME, Sept. 29). Authoress Olivier rarely goes to London; when she does, Sylvia Townsend Warner and many another writer are glad to see her. Other books: The Love Child, As Far As Jane's Grandmother's, The Triumphant Footman...
...Married. Jane Lee, daughter of new President Thomas George Lee of Armour & Co. (meat packing); and William Edward Graham, son of famed Architect Ernest Robert Graham (Flatiron Bldg., New York; New Civic Opera House, Chicago); in Chicago...
When the rich Hetheringtons bought a neighboring ranch to summer in Card became great pals with their young daughter Jane; he told her about the Something Wonderful he was expecting; she thought he would probably get it. But he did not find it in college. He let the War go by without him, worked on the ranch instead. Then he joined up with an architect; he liked building, but it was not quite It. Jane suddenly appeared and asked him to marry her, to save her from her family who had persuaded her to get engaged to a tycoonish Easterner...