Word: renowned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement of a gift of $ 125,000 by Mrs. William Lowell Putnam for the promotion of scholarship through contests between various colleges an entirely new field of intercollegiate competition is opened up. No longer will the undergraduate desirous of contributing to the fame of his college or of winning renown for himself be forced to direct his energies to athletic achievement or to be content with the vague assurance that in devoting himself assiduously to his studies he is somehow adding to the intellectual prestige of his Alma Mater and storing up future treasures for himself. It is Mrs. Putnam...
Though simple, the last rites of Lord Oxford were no more austere than those of the late Earl Haig (TIME, Feb. 13). Haig was borne to final rest in Dryburgh Abbey, Scotland, on a farm cart, attended chiefly by local Scottish friends of small renown...
...choice, tangy naval skipper is Rear-Admiral Ernest Augustus Taylor, 52, blunt, peppery and retired into politics. As Commander of the battle cruiser Renown he carried Edward of Wales to Canada (1919) and to Australia and New Zealand (1920). Smart Americans have met Admiral Taylor in Manhattan as the guest of Art-Tycoon Otto Kahn...
...football team which a few years ago attained national renown should have a moment of prayer before each game, there is surely no reason why the common run of undergraduates, about to enter a three-hour struggle not with their equals in ability but with examiners of far superior mentality to theirs, should not seek strength for the unequal contest. There can be no question, furthermore, but that the proper frame of mind, which many seek by prolonged slumbers or revelry the night before, can be more quickly obtained in the cloistered quiet of the chapel. In the Ecclesiastes there...
...China "the three Soong sisters" are ladies of polite renown. The first is the wife of H. H. Kung, a gentleman whose august destiny is summed up in the fact that he claims to be a lineal descendant of Confucius. The second was internationally known as the wife, and later as the revered widow, of Dr. Sun Yatsen, "sainted" founder of the Nationalist movement. She is now reported married (TIME, Oct. 10) to her late husband's zealous co-worker Chen Yu-jen ("Eugene Chen"), until recently Foreign Minister to the defunct Hankow Nationalist Government (TIME, April...