Word: stem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer school maiden was caught smoking a short masculine straight stem pipe in the privacy of her boudoir. It has long been popular that Harvard was to become co-educational by adding of a few men but we haven't heard that Radcliffe would...
...defunct) Engineers' Club he played golf in the 80's. He keeps up his membership in London's Middlesex Golf Club. Last week he retired to his summer home at Chestertown, N. Y. in the Adirondacks. He wears tweedy clothes, habitually mumbles his speech around the stem of a well-caked briar pipe. At Blake's, the Herald Tribune saloon where he lunches with staff mates, he prefers Scotch whiskey. Late at night he is sometimes known to burst into song-always English ballads. A son, Arthur Gibb, attends Cambridge. A daughter. Dorothy Frances...
...Schacht, then President of the Reichsbank and famed for his success in stabilizing the German mark in 1924 at its present gold value, predicted catastrophe if U. S. and other foreign loans continued to pour into Germany, did what he could (not much) to stem the flood...
...mustache, was in a tight fix. For years he fought branchbanking as "financial feudalism" and ''economic vassalage." Last autumn when he was elected second vice president of the American Bankers Association, thus assuring him of the presidency in 1935, he ate his words and said: "We cannot stem the tide of economic events." A Bavarian from Ansbach, he learned banking in Chicago, went to the Hibernia 26 years ago. At 33 he was president. John J. Gannon, whom he displaced, spent the brief balance of his life cursing Rudolf Hecht in all public places as a double-crosser...
...forced to abandon the expensive private physician and to choose cheaper or even charity hospitals. Besides this, the hospital delivery has great advantages over the delivery in the private home; better equipment, experienced assistants, and immediate help in case of emergency. Therefore, even if considered desirable, an attempt to stem the flow of patients to the maternities would fail, and, realizing the dangers lurking in hospitals, we should do everything to improve conditions of the institutional delivery, so that it will turn out to be safer than home delivery. ..." ¶ "To be able to make such improvements we must first...