Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...signed newspaper piece last week, Chief Hoover wrote: "George ('Machine Gun') Kelly is supposed to have coined the name G-men while Special Agents of the FBI were pursuing him for the kidnaping of Charles F. Urschel of Oklahoma City. Kelly and his wife had fled from town to town until Kelly, who was a blowhard and a coward, got panicky...
...before the bride's birthday, the couple were married. Kurt Schuschnigg was unable to attend his own wedding, for though he had been escorted away from Belvedere, he was being held for questioning in Vienna's former Hotel Metropole, now Nazi secret political police headquarters. By special mandate his brother, Dr. Arthur Schuschnigg, former director of the Austrian Federal Broadcasting Co., went in for him at the altar. The Countess, holding a bouquet of yellow roses sent by her absentee groom, was solemnly married to the proxy, then broke open a note from the real thing: By this...
Woodbury Lowery Fellowships in History to Walter D. Brown, of Washington, D.C.; Special Fellowship in the Graduated School of Education to Hope Fisher, of Princeton; Buckley Scholarship to Martin Ritvo, of Dorchester, for study in the Law School; Downer Scholarship to Edward C. Woods, 2Dn., of Rutland, Vermont; Lincoln Scholarship to Richard A. McLean, 2G., of Lincoln; Lydig Scholarship to Jefferson G. Artz, 1G., of Vicksburg, Mississipi; Parlin Scholarship to Irving L. Pavlo, 2M., of Malden; and Vaughn Scholarship to Theodore P. Robie, of New York City, for study at the Medical School...
...sufficient chemistry should take courses B and 3, a first and a second half-year course respectively. B is unsatisfactory on the whole--it is rather easy, the lectures are not connected with the reading, and Bartlett tends to be dull in his elementary lectures. But this year a special section will be arranged for particularly qualified men. Chemistry 3 is a second semester course on Qualitative Analysis. Professor Forbes is hard for Freshmen to follow unless they have done the reading, which is also hard to follow, but the material is valuable...
...Divisional exams in the Senior year consist of a general exam on the field and another in one's special field, chosen from among Systematic Geography, Regional Geography, Climatology, and Physiography. The latter is also, and perhaps more closely, connected with Geology, Geology 1 being required for Geography 4a, the beginning course in Physiography. Geography 5b and 7b, the Physiography of North and South America respectively are considered better courses in Physiography from the point of view of the human geographer. Course 4a was criticized as being too technical for one in Systematic Geography which deals with its effect...