Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beginning of the 20th century, Miss Marie Corelli, with the financial support of Edward Morris, Chicago millionaire, purchased the House and completely restored it to its 16th century aspect. Miss Corelli was convinced that the structure should belong to the University; she wrote to Morris, "You may call it a romantic notion perhaps, but I should like to think that the house of John Harvard's mother was a link with John Harvard's university, and a sign of friendship between the two nations...
...dispatch from Miss Corelli announcing delivery on the House was read at the ceremonies and was greeted with "a long and loud outburst of enthusiasm...
...Miss Corelli's wish that Harvard House could be "a sign of connection between Shakespeare and Harvard, and a pledge of amity between British and American scholars all over the world..." is now partially realized every summer when travelling Cantabrigians sign the cherished Harvard Book for future generations to view...
...readers, who usually think of English squires as ruddy, irascible old gents, more or less akin to Kentucky Colonels. So when they read about the squire picking up her sewing, putting on her evening dress and performing other distinctly feminine duties, their surprise tends to make them miss the point of Miss Bagnold's story. The squire, it turns out, is so called because in the absence of her husband she runs the household. Waiting for the birth of her fifth child, she watches over her three sons and her gentle, intuitive daughter, takes no nonsense from anybody: "Nonsense...
About 229 applications for the positions were made to Miss Peter this year, Phelps said, but pointed out that many have to be rejected if the Dean's office reports that their standing is poor. Although 230 monitor posts are open, the number of attendance-takers is really much less than that, owing to the fact that that most of them make reports for more than one course...