Word: mercier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Half a century ago a pompous, patrician French Army officer, Mercier du Paty de Clam, played a key role in the historic plot against Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus. Emile Zola's flaming J'Accuse! began "I accuse Colonel du Paty de Clam of having been the diabolical agent...
...space of 24 hours, on October 6, another honorary degree was granted, this time to Cardinal Desire Felicien Francolise Joseph Mercier, Belgium's hero primate. Describing Cardinal Mercier, as "a great rock in the wilderness," Lowell conferred the honor before an assembly of dignitaries at Sanders Theatre...
...Stanley Steamer. At Rutgers University, Robert Louis Stevenson enrolled in an elementary course in English composition. In Detroit, the Housing Commission pondered evicting Worthy Peoples for not paying his rent. In Portland, Ore., E. L. Aprill and T. B. Showers enlisted in the Navy. In Baltimore, L. B. Mercier was refused a job because he had no first name-just initials. On Guadalcanal, Lieut. Dan Gaede dived into a foxhole, landed on top of Lieut. Commander Dan E. Gaede, a stranger, who turned out to be a cousin...
...members of the Harvard faculty, ranging from professors to instructors, are on the teaching staff for the current year. Professors include Raphael Demos, Philosophy; James Ford '04, Social Ethics; Morris B. Lambie, Government; Louis J. A. Mercier, French and Education; Kenneth B. Murdock '16, English Literature; Guillermo Rivera '09, Spanish; Ralph H. Wetmore, Botany; and Payson S. Wild, Government...
...field, for that matter, does not seem to scare its concentrators and a goodly number of them frankly, and often disappointedly, admit it can be taken as a "bull" field. Examinations are very often passed after a day or two of cramming and except only such better tutors as Mercier, Penny, and Seznac the tutorial can be disregarded. Romance Languages, is the field most nearly approaching the prep school student's idealization of college life, you will get just as much out of it as you put into...