Word: ph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faced Mark Van Doren, like his three-year junior, Thornton Wilder (see col. 1), learned his songster's art in the gilded academic cage. But his trial flights have been less bold and less successful than Wilder's. Graduate of his native University of Illinois, a Columbia Ph. D., an assistant professor of English at Columbia, he has confined his extracurricular activities to the literary editorship of the Nation (1924-28). critical studies, books of poems...
...Sheehy certainly never earned his Ph. D. by such an utter lack of investigation into the facts of the case as he has displayed in this instance...
Under Letters in your issue of Dec. 3. one Maurice S. Sheehy, Ph. D., Director, Survey Council, Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C., nominates for "Man of the Year" our eminent Postmaster General, the Honorable James A. Farley...
...singer who had lost health and voice. Friends sent her to Dr. St. Louis Estes, "N. D., D. D. S., D. C., S. P., Ph. D.," a dentist who had turned food-faddist. She ate the raw foods he advised and practiced "brain breathing control." She got well, fell in love with him, accompanied him on food-faddist lecture tours, bore him children here & there, grew rich with...
...English, became so nice in his choice of words that he finally decided there were no synonyms in the language. After graduating high from Carleton, Veblen taught for a year in a Norwegian-community school, then went East to study philosophy at Johns Hopkins and Yale, take his Ph. D. He spent the rest of his life looking for a fitting academic rut. For a time he could find no job at all, disgusted his family by loafing at home. Finally he was offered an instructorship at the new Rockefeller-endowed University of Chicago. He also taught at Stanford University...