Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There have probably been few funds that can show as great a record of accomplishment as the Russian Student. Fund, which was established in 1921 to educate refugees from the Soviet regime in American universities. Figures recently published show that last year a quarter of the 133 beneficiaries were "A" men in their studies and not one failed, while in a financial way the results were equally favorable, for the repayments of their advances is considerably above that of the usual student loan...
Though his student audience began to mutter at such blanket flaying of all Chinese, forthright, Marshal Feng pressed straight on with his speech, smashing home each point with a sounding fist blow upon the rostrum...
From almost any other Chinaman such words would have provoked a student riot...
...Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr., was supposed to be suffering from a thoroughgoing beating which, she said, had been inflicted on her on Thanksgiving eve in the Sherry-Netherland Hotel, Manhattan, by Robert H. Loeb, psychoanalyst, student of Dr. Jung, and member of the New York Stock Exchange...
...Wyckoff made his debut in the district, getting a job as messenger for a firm of brokers. Clever lad, apt student, he was in due course a broker on his own, functioning in a number of partnerships, promoting innumerable enterprises, among them the Emerson Phonograph Co. By 1907 when he started to publish the Ticker Magazine he had acquired a reputation for smartness and a considerable fortune...