Word: phi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shimer & bride hurried home to protest. He had strong support: 22 of the 28 professors at the summer session signed a petition backing him. The petition referred to his previous career as national secretary of Phi Beta Kappa and editor of the American Scholar, as dean of the faculty at Bucknell and as a Navy lieutenant during the war. Said greying Professor T. D. Phillips of Marietta's physics department: "Marietta College needs some new trustees...
...attention to stocks & bonds; in the depression it dropped nearly half its circulation. By wider coverage of all economic news and by trying to be more readable, President Kenneth C. Hogate brought it back. Hogate, who died in February, was succeeded by bright Bernard Kilgore, like his predecessor a Phi Beta Kappa from DePauw...
...morning, she sets the tone of the day's activities with a brisk "Good morning, slaves," to her staff, sweeps into her office, climbs into more comfortable shoes, and settles down to the morning mail and the notes prepared by her legman, a University of North Carolina Phi Bete named David ("Spec") McClure...
...Goertz, who wrote this Literary Guild selection for July, is fortyish and kindly, and she has had her quota of happiness, excitement and tragedy. Her New Orleans childhood was in the "German tradition of discipline and duty." She graduated from Tulane University magna cum laude, took with her a Phi Beta Kappa key and her Spanish professor as a husband. Later she lived in Mexico, wrote a book about it (South of the Border), then went to Japan on a scholarship. The day after Pearl Harbor the Japs made her a civilian war prisoner. She came back...
...Maloney, 55, head of the 420-man news department, transmutes the boss's notions into type. He is a Phi Bete from Dartmouth, flew with Rickenbacker in World War I, graduated in reporting from the cooperative City News Bureau, from which he hires up to 18 bright young newsmen a year...