Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carrel's work Man, the Unknown, accepts his own brain and its peculiar mechanism as standard for the universe [TIME, Sept...
...flock together at this year's first meeting of the Harvard Ornithology Club in the Upper Common Room of Adams House on Friday evening, October 4, at 7.30 o'clock. Frederick A. Saunders, professor of Physics, will show moving pictures of birds which he took with his own peculiar telephoto arrangement...
...entering a new Dark Age, but at least for a Freshman Harvard today offers opportunities for training in patience which will tax any man's soul--and the sum of these experiences, over a period of four years, will make an autobiography of peculiar interest...
...physicians and one surgeon in the afternoon from 1 to 5 o'clock) it is necessary to remind members of the University that, unless a rigid appointment system is set up, some waiting will at times be necessary before a doctor may be seen. This is not a situation peculiar to the Hygiene Department. The staff realizes that time should be an important item in every man's schedule and will seek to minimize delays. In this connection, written criticisms of the Department or any phase of its activities, addressed to the Professor of Hygiene, will receive consideration...
WillB Hadley's peculiar first name is due to the fact that his father was also named Will and his mother added "B" to the boy's to distinguish father and son. He studied finance at Wharton School, worked for the Manhattan accounting firm of Haskins & Sells, helped Charles Evans Hughes investigate New York insurance companies. In 1906 Roosevelt I named him assistant auditor of Puerto Rico. Three years later he was called home to overhaul Philadelphia's accounting system, became chief accountant in the office of the city controller. He did so good a job that...