Word: school
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fund for "maintenace of a lectureship in Secondary Education" was founded in 1924 in memory of Alexander Inglis, professor of Education at the University from 1914 to 1924, by his friends and colleagues, and is under the auspices of the Graduate School of Education...
...Dvorak concluded that the old keyboard needed reforming when he found that high-school typists often misspelled easy words (such as "on," "which") because they had to make awkward reaches and hurdles with their fingers to type them. He also found that in normal writing typists struck keys in the home row (second from the bottom, where the fingers naturally rest) only 32% of the time, that the left hand did 47% more work than the right. Sample one-hand word: greatest...
Cardinal Maglione is a seasoned diplomat who went to school with Eugenio Pacelli, has in recent years been Papal Nuncio in Switzerland and in France. When he was sent to France in 1926, he was coldly received as "pro-German." Before he left in 1936, he had grown so close to the French Government that he was reported to have had a hand in the Hoare-Laval peace offer during the Italo-Ethi-opian War. Last week, before he was named, the German and Italian Governments actively opposed Cardinal Magli-one's candidacy for Secretary of State...
...Lowell House, Hussey has charge of the "Guardian" in the office of editor-in-chief. He is also a member of the debating team and was graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy three years ago. History is his field of concentration. Kurland is a graduate of the Boston Latin School and is majoring in Economics...
Neal now holds the position of president of the Debating Council, is on the Junior Album Committee, the Student Council, and the Dunster House Committee. Coming from Oak Park, Illinois, he was graduated from High School there. Here he is concentrating in Government...