Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bowditch dealt at length with the academic, social, and personal problems of the incoming Freshmen. He advised Freshmen to attempt to take courses in the Freshman year in "one or two of the fields in which he has developed an interest in School." He went on to say that the type of work in college courses was much different from that in preparatory school classes, and that it was the secondary school's job "to provide the student with the tools of learning...
...graduated second in the class of 1909 at West Point, has since proved himself an able engineer and administrator. Outside his office, he is an ornament of social Washington. Inside his office hangs a quotation from George Washington: "Do not suffer your good nature, when application is made, to say yes when you ought to say...
Dawn Patrol (Warner Bros.). Fortunately for cinemaddicts, as Hollywood finds it increasingly hard to say new things, it says the old ones increasingly well. This picture certainly gives no new account of the Royal Flying Corps. Its members fly "canvas coffins," drink "to the next man to die," and grimly say "Right!" when they mean "Wrong!" just as they have been doing in the movies ever since the first Dawn Patrol was made eight years ago. Nonetheless, by the time Captain Courtney (Errol Flynn) and Lieutenant Scott (David Niven) have shared their last toast and their last battle, audiences...
...medicine expert, points out that the 1939 label makes no promises at all. Said he: "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is 'Recommended as a Vegetable Tonic in Conditions for which this Preparation is Adapted.' This statement is about as informative as it would be to say that 'For Those Who Like This Sort of Thing, This is the Sort of Thing That Those People Like...
Youngest child of elderly parents, Eliot at Harvard was tense, sensitive and reserved. His Advocate contemporaries say he was English in everything but accent and citizenship. His remarks were quiet, witty, precise but not precious. He smoked a pipe, liked to be alone, carefully avoided slang, and dressed with the studied carelessness of a future dandy...