Word: jasper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Jasper (RKO) is Jasper Horn (Richard Dix), a swaggering horsecar conductor, burdened with a solemn, shrewish wife and blessed with a gracious though dangerous mistress. The mistress is dangerous because she is the wife of Jasper's employer. When the employer finds out, Jasper goes off to Atlantic City, sets up as an astrologer "for women only," wonders light-heartedly why his wife, who comes to Atlantic City also and independently opens a hot-dog stand, disapproves...
Volume X of the Dictionary of American Biography was published, running from J to L, beginning with Soldier William Jasper, who recovered and remounted the shot-down flag in the face of a British bombardment at Fort Sullivan (now Fort Moultrie) in 1776. It ends with Thomas Oliver Larkin, last U. S. consul at Monterey, capital of Mexican California. Between are 674 giants and lesser mortals who made U. S. history. Chief giant: Thomas Jefferson, allotted 37 columns. Others: John Jay, John Paul Jones, Robert Marion LaFollette...
...JASPER MARSH Treasurer...
...Hanford; for officers for one year; president, Henry S. Thompson; vice president, Austin W. Scott; secretary, Walter Humphreys; treasurer, John L. Taylor; for other directors for one year; from Harvard at large, Delmar Leighton and Alfred S. Redfield; from M.I.T. at large, Horace S. Ford and Jasper Whiting; from officers of Harvard, Clinton P. Biddle; from students of M.I.T., Wilbur Huston; from senior class of Harvard, Bradford K. Bachrach '33; from junior class of Harvard, Theodore Chase '34; from sophomore class of Harvard, W. F. Bowditch...
...Oregon there has long been rivalry between the State university and State college not only on their campuses but also in the presidential offices and in the legislature where appropriations are battled for. For 25 years Oregon State's president has been William Jasper Kerr, a shrewd manager, popular with some businessmen and with some of the state board whose nine active members include three college graduates. For six years Oregon University's president has been Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, a true scholar, onetime University of Wisconsin professor of political science. Dr. Hall has complained that his institution...