Word: lee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pitney--Lee, Copp v. Westengard--Buttles, Thompson...
...pioneer woman selected was not the ugly one executed by Mahonri Young; it was not the demure one executed by Jo Davidson; it was not the brawny one of James Earle Fraser, nor the placid one of Arthur Lee, nor the fragile one of F. Lynn Jenkins. Nor was it Maurice Sterne's, Hermon A. MacNeil's, Alexander Stirling Calder's, although these artists too were among those who made models for the competition...
...system, introduced by Professor Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, was designed to give a greater measure of freedom to the upper third of a class, a portion which, it was found, stood in rather small need of the meticulously fundamental work afforded by English A. With this in view the anticipatory examination was abolished, and the students are exempted on the basis of their entrance examinations. This, however, does not apply, it has been learned, to men entering without examinations according to the upper-seventh system, and all such men will be required to take...
Social Welfare. Dr. Lee Kaufer Frankel, who has been with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., created that company's welfare department, which has distributed millions of pamphlets instructing people, not necessarily Metropolitan policy holders, how to keep well, how to avoid illness. By education and organization and by co-operation with public health officials he has helped the good health of the entire country. The life insurance presidents gave to Dr. Frankel a clock and desk-set last week...
...extremely likely that neither the creator of the Forsytes nor the originator of Lorelei Lee will qualify as a genius, although, of course, Mr. Barton, as everyone else, is entitled to a belief that they will. Analysis of the word "genius" would determine to a large degree the number and character of those persons qualified to merit it. The writers now living whom the majority would grant the title may be counted on the fingers of one hand. One man alone would probably be a unanimous choice, and that one is Thomas Hardy, an Olympian who lingers on, cloistered...