Word: junior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles' first ambition was to be a minister. Then his maternal grandfather, John Watson Foster, President Benjamin Harrison's Secretary of State, inspired him to be a diplomat. While still a junior at Princeton, Dulles was taken by his grandfather to the Second Hague Peace Conference in 1907. At that time Grandfather Foster was representing not the U.S. but his law client, the Imperial Government of China-and Dulles' first job was as secretary to the Chinese delegation. Among his duties: riding around in a carriage paying courtesy calls, handing out Chinese visiting cards, going the social...
Also outstanding was defenseman Lanny Keyes, a junior. Playing on a relatively weak defense, Keyes made most of the team's clears and, especially in the Yale game, hounded opposing attacks. His value to the team was emphasized when his absence in the Princeton game accounted for several of the Tigers' 20 goals...
Volunteers. In Wellington, New Zealand, three junior members of the Tala Flat Volunteer Fire Brigade grew bored by the lack of fires, set one of their own for excitement, were fined $14 each by the brigade...
...founding fathers, says Burnham, thought of Congress as the predominant power in the new government. But changes during the past few decades have made Congress "a mere junior partner." Items...
...done from without. The monumentality of the latter problem is no more eloquently shown than by your edition of May 7, 1959, which, while devoting the better part of three pages to a sympathetic survey of the problems of Dudley House, could at the same time list the Junior Ushers from Dudley House underneath the other seven Houses, identifying them only as "the remaining ushers" and seemingly representing Wigglesworth Hall, Cambridge, and Dedham respectively. Wallace O. Davis...