Word: laird
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play will probably be presented on Friday, December 6. The following have been given parts: Howard A. Cook '37, Laird McK. Ogle '37, T. M. deSaint Phalle '39, Peter L. Scott '38, Alexander M. Thackera '38, Richard Turner 1GB, Montfort S. Variell '37, and Sumner Willard '37. Howard R. Patch, Jr. '38 is stage director, and Monroe Stearns ocC is production manager...
Aware of the cinders-&-soot nuisance in early sleeping cars, Professor Laird considered that factor removed by modern fine-mesh screens in Pullman windows- an assumption which many a traveler would dispute...
Shrewd Professor Donald Anderson Laird's query to the American Medical Association anent "a rational physiological explanation for having a Pullman passenger's head in the direction of motion" (TIME, April 29) is virtually identical in phraseology with a question put to Professor Laird last January in behalf of progress-minded Willis G. Gray, novelist-president of enterprising Scully-Walton Company, world's oldest (1882) and largest operators of private ambulances (New York, Brooklyn, The Bronx and London...
...inquiry Mr. Gray initiated at that time . . . served to direct scientific and empiric thought toward a question which Mr. Gray's findings answered in precisely the same manner as did Professor Laird...
Professor Laird . . . now makes no mention of one prime practical consideration which helped convince Mr. Gray that recumbency . . . should be feetfirst; the materially lessened probability of severe injury in event of accident...