Word: patches
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Rheumatism combined with overwork have reduced Author Joyce to near-blindness : he wears thick spectacles, sometimes a black patch over his left eye. He cannot read without a magnifying glass. When he writes, he wears a white jacket with the arms of the City of Dublin embroidered on the breast pocket; uses a large red pencil. Friends reread his manuscript to him, which he corrects many times. His proofs, too, surfer, even to the fifth or sixth revision. Domestic, shy, Joyce rarely leaves home except for the opera or to dine at the famed Trianon Restaurant. Poor most...
...that reason especially, the names of Professor Elton of the University of Liverpool and Professor Patch of Smith College among the new appointments to the College of Arts and Sciences for the next academic year are more than welcome additions. Their appearance as lecturers in particular courses will serve to bolster a falling superstructure. Contemporaneous with the departure to England of one of Harvard's most brilliant scholars and popular teachers, the second appearance of the English authority is opportune in balancing the deficit occasioned by the loss of Professor Lowes. The acquisition of both men represents a definite step...
Appointments of four lecturers to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences were announced yesterday at University Hall. Professor Oliver Elton, of the University of Liverpool, and H. R. Patch, Professor of English at Smith College, will teach in the English Department during the year 1930-31. Gaetano Salvemini, of the University of Florence, will lecture in the History Department this next half year while Josef Schumpeter, of Bonn, will be associated with the Economics Department...
Professor Patch will be lecturer in English for the second half of the year 1930-31. He was graduated from Hobart College, and received his A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard. Before he became professor of English at Smith in 1924 he was an instructor at Harvard, a lecturer and later assistant and associate professor at Bryn Mawr. He has written several studies on English literature...
...Eielson, 32, is, perhaps was, general manager of Alaskan Airways. There are no regular air transport lines in the Peninsula. Alaskan Airways has bases at Nome, Anchorage, Fairbanks. It charters its planes for taxi and express service, using about 70 small government landing fields in summer and any patch of level snow in winter...