Word: personable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...academic record, 29 members of the University have been awarded Detur Prizes, given annually to students in the College or the Engineering School who for the first time win scholarships in the First Group or who graduate with degrees summa cum laude. Dean Hanford will make the awards in person some time this week...
...influence with a sufficient number of cardinals and bishops to acquire two curacies near Paris. Bored, no doubt, as cure, he shortly resigned both posts and disappeared from anecdote till on his deathbed, surrounded by grieving friends, he joked at their grief. Much that is lost of Rabelais' personal history crops up in his story of "his second self," Panurge - cozener, roysterer, rhyme ster, philosopher, companion to Pantagruel, "a very gallant and proper man of his person, only that he was a little lecherous, and naturally subject to a kinde of disease, which at that time they called lack...
Smaller than the New Testament is the Koran, holiest of books to the 209,000,000 Mohammedans who live in Asia, Africa, Europe, and to the 20,000 who live in the U. S. and Canada. Here Allah speaks in the first person from the breathless vastness where He reigns. Here are tales of Noah, Moses, Joseph, of the great Horned Alexander; here is denounced the idolatry of those who worship Christ as the Son of God. The Koran was dictated by, or remembered from the sayings of, the great Prophet to whom Angel Gabriel brought messages. In heaven...
...annual U. S. drugstore expenditure is $1,250,000,000. In city stores each person spends $14.91 yearly, each family $64.10; in rural stores each person $5.95, each family $25.57. Of the total, $125,000,000 (10%) is for prescriptions, $275,000,000 (22%) for proprietary medicines, $125,000,000 (10%) for toilet articles, $175,000,000 (14%) for sodas & candies, $100,000,000 (8%) for cigars, cigarets & tobacco, $450,000,000 (36%) for sundries...
Lahm Prize. Almost forgotten in the U. S. is Frank S. Lahm, 83, first U. S. citizen to take up ballooning as a sport, first person to give a full account of what Wilbur and Orville Wright accomplished, great protagonist of the Wrights in France. But in France where the elder Lahm has lived in retirement since the War, he is less a recollection. Each year he gives 30,000 francs ($1,175) for the most interesting accomplishment in aviation. Last week he gave the money to Juan de la Cierva, who invented the autogiro (flying machine with vanes whirling...