Word: laird
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alastair, son of a down-at-heel Scottish laird, is Author Scott's example of how the process works. While his school friend Patrick shines up old claymores and dotes on mossy manor houses, Alastair claws his way to the top of the class and gets to Cambridge University-"a wee Scottie on the make." he gleefully calls himself. He takes Cathy away from Patrick as briskly and heartlessly as a cat would snatch a piece of meat, and he declaims his creed in the mocking tones of one who will never be shackled by ties of tradition...
...management could put it in the black. It was a "coincidence," said he, that the syndicate that purchased U.S. Rubber stock in 1927 was made up of members of the Du Pont family. The reason was that Irénée's brother-in-law, W. W. Laird, was the Wilmington broker in the sale, and he had to find participants able to put in $1,200,000. The Du Fonts were the logical...
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This unification of three of the most important parts of Harvard's eight scattered botanical institutions involves a major shift in University policy. It is the result of a secret report by a nine-man Botanical Co-ordinating Committee, headed by Laird Bell '04, presented to the Board of Overseers on January...
Charles C. Burlingham '79, joined R. Keith Kane '22, member of the Corporation; Grenville Clark '03, former Corporation member; and Laird Bell '04, Overseer, in deploring "any effort to criticize or reproach Gov. Stevenson for testifying" on what he had heard of the reputation of Hiss...