Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speech will keynote a program designed, Mrs. Wilma A. Kerby-Miller, dean of instruction, said yesterday, "to set aside one day for the consideration of the basis of scholarship." 'Cliffe President W. K. Jordan and Dean Kerby-Miller are other scheduled speakers...
...went on to say what a terrific guy her husband was and how the 16- and 17-year-old infants on his team had mauled everybody they played last fall. At any rate, whoever gets the job--Valpey, Glassford, Jordan, or even Skip Stahley--he will have to get it pretty soon. Time is running...
From that time until some one hundred and twenty years later, when Will K. Jordan took over as president of Radcliffe, Fay House was dominated by its womenfolk. For three years in the 1830's the daughters of Daniel Davis made Castle Corners, as it was called, famous for its hospitality. Then in 1835, Judge Samuel Fay bought the place, and for the next fifty years his wife and then his daughter entertained the Cambridge intelligentsia there. On one occasion, it is reputed that Maria Fay had Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and William James in her kitchen at the same...
Seasonal vicissitudes combined with the necessity for secrecy have led many cardaddicts to a game involving less suspicion: the ancient pastime of Hearts, now raging from the smoky dens of Eliot to the leather-cushioned bistros of Jordan's Marsh. Inscrutable shyster Robert S. Takeacard (Anycard) '48 smirked over his demitasse last night, "It's better than making book on the mayoralty race. You don't have to buck Mickey...
...about 100 each struck again, at Jewish settlements along the coast below Jaffa and at Ramat Rachel, only three miles from Jerusalem. Again British forces intervened and drove off the attackers. At week's end, Jews blew up the "Bridge of Jacob's Daughters" over the River Jordan to cut one of the main Arab invasion routes into northern Palestine...