Word: returning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became an L.L.D. Promised he: "When I go on the shelf I mean to stay there. ... From now on I shall reflect a lot and say nothing." ¶ Pet college of Publisher William Randolph Hearst, who went to Harvard for three years, is Ogelthorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.) which in return for financial benefactions and a woodsy tract nine years ago gave Publisher Hearst his first university degree. Last week Ogelthorpe made a Doctor of Laws of Mr. Hearst's able, orotund, Red-baiting Atorney John Francis ("Jack") Neylan. Also homored with Litt.D's were Novelists Margaret Ayer Barnes...
...play "Handies" a person attempts by manual manipulation to portray a familiar phrase, title, personage or situation. The more extravagantly far-fetched the conception, the better the "Handy." Observers are not expected to be able to identify the improvisation but to be ready to return an even more fantastic...
...Treasury issues as fast as they can. Government bonds have been pushed to record highs and the bankers are convinced that they will stay there, if not go higher. Some people are even talking of the day when the cautious investor will have to be satisfied with a 2% return on his money...
When Vasile Foar, a onetime railroad shop worker, was 35, a strike occurred in Garrett. Ind. machine shops of Baltimore & Ohio R.R. Vasile Foar acted as foreman of a crew of strikebreakers. In return for his services the road promised him work for the rest of his life. That...
...alumni who have specified on return postals, inclosed with their invitations, that they desire such information, are being sent the following material...