Word: ripley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late James Bradley Thayer, grandfather of M. Thayer, was Royall professor of law from 1874 until 1902, and Ezra Ripley Thayer, his father, was third dean of the Law School. Both his father and grandfather have donated their lives to the service of Harvard University, and Mr. Thayer's appointment yesterday cannot but recall their brilliant work...
Announcement yesterday by the Harvard Law School of the appointment of James Bradley, Thayer, son of the late Ezra Ripley Thayer, as assistant professor of comparative law, brings into the faculty of the Law School the third of a distinguished line of teachers...
William Zebina Ripley, Harvard economist: "In Manhattan one night last week, two children were killed, and eight adults were badly smashed in motor accidents. Mary Hutchinson, 20, dancer in Castles in the Air, had both legs broken. I, proceeding by taxicab with a lady to a Waldorf Astoria function, was suddenly hurled against the side of the vehicle. Glass cut me over the right eye. My skull was not, as first feared, fractured. My companion, hurled against me, was unhurt. Next day, as I lay in a hospital, Lawyers Louis Marshall and Gilbert H. Montague (verbally) and Corporation Director Maurice...
Professor W. Z. Ripley, noted economist of the University, who was recently injured in an automobile accident in New York, is not in a critical condition, it was announced last night. He suffered lacerations of the scalp due to splintered glass...
...permanent peace rests with Sears Ripley, a devoted, sensitive widower, who brings it to pass by being not only patient and understanding but sufficiently muscular to carry her up to bed when, heavy with their first child, she is on the point of wishing she were a mooncalf again instead of a daughter and mother of her persistent species...