Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there are only 69 such schools. All professions have increased their requirements and the schools which could not meet the demand either had to consolidate with a stronger institution or else "pass out of the picture." During these years optometry has been building-true, a few of our "weak sister" schools have closed their doors, but during this same time we have established courses in Optometry at Columbia University (New York City), University of Rochester (Rochester, N. Y.), Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio), University of California (Berkeley, Calif.) and have many other institutions which confine their curricula to optometry exclusively...
...number, the beauty, the distinction of its lady delegates. Mabel Walker Willebrandts were scarce, but the Bosses could outmatch Leona Curtis Knight, daughter of mere Vice-Presidential Curtis, with Emily Smith Warner, favorite daughter of the Brown Derby himself. Delegate Warner was not unbefriended. Her mother, husband,* sister, three brothers, many in-laws, were among the watched and watching observers. But she missed her father, sent him cheering messages...
Seventeen years ago, the fast, graceful Mauretania outstripped her sister liners, logged 676 nautical miles in 24 hours. On a swift dash to Honolulu in 1923, the light cruiser Omaha set a 24-hr, record of 690 miles and linked the U. S. with Hawaii in 75 hours, 40 minutes, 40 seconds...
...swimmer was ever more photographed than Mrs. Lotty Moore Schoemmel, fat water-woman. Last week her sister, Mrs. Grace Moore Shaw, told...
...brought from obscurity by clever publicity. . . . She thought more of a story or a picture than making a swim. I had to spend money on her to make her think she was being pursued by reporters, found it next to impossible to get my publicity-crazed sister into the water to train unless it was to the accompaniment of the click of camera shutters. She was so spoiled. ... I spent money for private photographers. This was necessary as we were so far from Los Angeles that newspapermen came out rarely. ... I want her to pay the $800 I spent...