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...stocking tops. In 1899 Katharine Marjory Ramsay married the Duke of Atholl, chieftain of all the Murrays, colonel-in-chief of the Scottish Horse Scouts, a gallant soldier and the owner of 202,000 Scottish acres. Said the Duchess last week : "I do think the Committee should not overlook the practical type of boy who wants to be out in the world making his own way. Industry needs children of that...
...surveyed the field and laid out a curriculum, Harvard will appoint a dean and three professors, probably open the school in September 1937. Founder Littauer charged the University especially to find "a dean of high abilities, energy and courage." An obvious question last week was whether it could overlook Felix Frankfurter, whose young proteges in Washington are the nearest U. S. approach to the British Civil Service. Since Professor Frankfurter and his "Happy Hot Dogs'' are cordially disliked and distrusted by Republicans, businessmen and most Harvardmen, a good guess was that Harvard will find a way of overlooking...
...untold occasions Mr. Apted has given students in difficulty sound advice and cooperative help before their cases reached higher authorities. Often he has managed to make quiet disposition of a case so that it never reached University Hall and disciplinary action. Lastly, it is impossible to overlook the observation that even the innocent and now deified Mr. George was perhaps so intoxicated that Mr. Apted could not be blamed for believing him capable of the outrage to the janitor...
...previous expedition, Mr. Lake had an equally unpleasant experience. A sudden heat wave overlook him and his party far from camp. A wee nip of Scotch was proposed to lessen the ravages of climate. The suggestion was approved. A bottle was produced, opened,--and dropped with disgust. The servants had packed vinegar by mistake...
What a nasty and disagreeable article your correspondent wrote about the fair in San Diego [TIME, June 10). Well aware are we all that every exposition must contend with midways and sideshows. But that your representative should overlook the glorious beauty of the fairgrounds, which alone would warrant a visit from millions of visitors, is hard to forgive. Many subscriptions will you lose on the West Coast from this article, but not mine...