Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uniform of a British lancer in The Charge of the Light Brigade, somewhat less advantageously swathed in the white tunic of a U. S. medico. He is Dr. Newell Paige, an irreligious but idealistic young surgeon who, when a patient dies because of a blunder by his superior, generously takes the blame. The daughter (Anita Louise) of the mishap's victim likes Dr. Paige at first sight, hates him when she suspects him of being responsible for her mother's death. When this situation has been straightened out by the surgical nurse (Margaret Lindsay...
...Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to abandon 204.34 mi. of track in New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut because it was unprofitable.* In Providence, R. I., the New Haven was an interested party in the prosecution and conviction of Joseph Gemma, 40, for "stealing a railroad in broad daylight." A Superior court jury found the operator of Joe's Auto Salvage Co. and a gang of men had pilfered 250 tons of New Haven rails worth $3,800 from an abandoned stretch of the Harrisville-Woonsocket R. R. in northern Rhode Island last summer...
...Strike-endorsing Senator would speak up but that there were more was clearly indicated one night last week when smart, socialite Alice Roosevelt Longworth commercialized herself in Washington over a nation-wide Lucky Strike radio hookup. Mrs. Longworth set a new high of some kind when she described the superior clarity with which the voices of Lucky Strike-smoking Senators could be heard in the Senate gallery...
...Professor Wyman has established a museum of comparative anatomy; and Professor Agassiz has also a museum, of which the fish collection is superior to that of the British Museum or the Jardin des Plantes, owing to the immense labors of the professor in Brazil. Asa Gray is the Professor of Botany, and, as all botanists know, is the Hooker of the United States. The students of Harvard are singularly fortunate in being able to study zoology, anatomy, and botany under these distinguished gentlemen, who are also skillful and elequent teachers of their respective silences. It may interest some...
...kind of rounders. They are extremely orderly and well-behaved. Nothing surprises an English University man so as to see young ladies tripping about in the neighborhood of the college, and to learn that several girls' schools have been established at Cambridge on account of the university and the superior training which may be there obtained...