Word: lating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winter of 1927, with the approaching promotion of the late Director to the rank of emeritus, it was felt that the time had come when modernization of the Museum, and its rearrangement into the still greater teaching implement, which the Division had long deserved, should at last be undertaken. Dr. S. K. Lothrop '15, who has done distinguished scientific work and was in the employ of the American Museum in New York, was invited to succeed, and he accepted the position. In the spring of last year, after having had an opportunity of estimating the condition of the Museum...
Married. Thomas Fortune Ryan 2d, 29, grandson of the late capitalist Thomas Fortune Ryan; and Mrs. Margaret Moorhead Rea, 29, divorced wife of the son of the onetime president of Pennsylvania Railroad; in the Municipal Building, Manhattan...
Many a wife is a compliment, no complement to her husband. Mrs. Mabel Brady Garvan is both to her Francis Patrick Garvan. She, daughter of the late very wealthy Anthony N. Brady, sister of Nicholas Frederic Brady (Anaconda Copper, gas & electric utilities, Chrysler Motors), chose him when he was a vigorous, powerful assistant district attorney in New York City.* He was her brother-in-law, brother of Nicholas F. Brady's wife Genevieve Garvan Brady. And ever since she has worked, sometimes behind him, usually beside him, never before him, always with him-through his private management of their...
...Rescue. Few scenarists have understood the literary methods of the late Joseph Conrad, or discovered until too late how his tales of adventure, seemingly straightforward enough, are complicated with struggles about something called honor. "Take out that honor, we can't have it in" exasperated directors declare at last, but when pencils scratch and honor disappears, Conrad has gone too. Blank spaces must be left for the honor: Ronald Colman, adventurer, loves Lily Damita, wife of another, but tries to preserve her ____; besides, he has sworn on his ______ to restore a certain Rajah to his throne. Even superb photography...
Automotive Engineers, in annual meeting at Detroit, were skeptical of the importance of the Mitten innovation, believed that it had been devised too late. H. C. Dickinson of the Federal Bureau of Standards argued: "Gasoline is made by cracking crude oil and the big oil companies can crack oil so cheaply now that it hardly pays to develop an automobile engine that will do this work. Besides, when the oil is cracked at the refineries, the by-products which have a market value are saved. When oil is cracked in an automobile engine it is lost...