Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year banks began to balk. When they did, Peter suddenly produced "bills of exchange'' (drafts) apparently guaranteed, by such sterling-solid men as Docker and Mann. When one bank refused to give him further loans, he would "cash" another bill of exchange with another bank and repay the loan at the first. Last spring his respectable backers had enough. They resigned from the boards, refused him further financing. In June, his companies crashing around him, Peter abruptly put himself into a private sanatorium where no visitors were allowed. But one visitor got through anyway: Chief Detective Superintendent...
...wrote Gertrude Stein, '97, "Gertrude Stein having been in Baltimore for a winter and having become more humanised and less adolescent and less lonesome went to Radcliffe." Two years later, Josephine Sherwood (The Solid Gold Cadillac) Hull followed; then came Helen Keller, '04, Novelists Rachel Field, '18, and Helen Howe, '27, and a host of scholars and scientists. But to all these brilliant entrances and exits, Harvard itself chose to pretend indifference...
...high school embarked on a retreat from solid learning? Absolutely, says Classicist John Francis Latimer of George Washington University. Latimer feels that he has evidence to prove his point. Among the results of a poll he took of 104 public-school systems in 44 states...
...sided solid whose faces are parallelograms...
...announcement follows by a month the completion of his "Twenty Million Dollar Effort" to stabilize and consolidate the school. The drive was climaxed when the Ford Foundation gave $2,000,000 for expanded teacher training, busines research, and two professorships. The grant put the school on its most solid financial foundation in nearly 25 years and rounded out the Dean's ambitious plans for reorienting the curriculum and school's objective to post-war business conditions. "I think this is a good time for a young and vigorous leader to take over," he said...