Word: tenderable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shanghai, the respirator, continually working, was transferred to a tender and carried alongside the President Coolidge. Then for three precarious minutes the thread of Fred Snite's life was unknotted. That was the length of time it took attendants to take him out of his old respirator, carry him on a stretcher aboard the President Coolidge and insert him in another respirator. The shift was made without a hitch and Fred Snite Jr. sailed for the U. S. prostrate but undismayed. Installed in a twelve-room suite for his parents and medical retinue headed by Harvard-trained Dr. Claude...
Those who think the world is going to the dogs will find now justification for their beliefs. Those who trust the undergraduate will be amply rebuffed. And those sensitive souls who forever find evidences of bad taste, who always abhor the slightly libelous, and, tender-nosed, continually ferret out the scandalous will be well titillated...
Last week Dr. Andrews pointed to his museum's new exhibits as honest tender of what he could do with $10,779,925 which his trustees want to add to the present $16,176,640 endowment of their $62,000,000 establishment. They "have cases of material in their cellars, multitudes of ideas in their curators' heads, which they want to show the public. In a new Hall of Man they want to show "man's embryology, development of his body, unfolding of his behavior, his genetics, and a resume of his achievements over the ages." They...
...average Freshman is to stay in college, he must be inspired and stimulated to intelligent study by able and competent teachers, and should not be left to the tender mercies of young, inexperienced, section-men, who are already overburdened with their own research work. Young instructors who have never taught before, are eminently unsuited to bear the lion's share of Freshman instruction. Because of the pressure of their own needs, they have not the time to guide the Yardlings, or the experience to teach them as they should be taught...
...means the whole Sopwith Navy. Still in England are his old motor yacht Vita and his new motor yacht Philante, which will cross the Atlantic in June and on which Owner Sopwith will live this summer, using a 28-ft. runabout now being built by Gar Wood as a tender. Philante is "the most luxurious motor yacht afloat." She is 263 ft., 1.612 tons, has a crew of 50, cost $1,250,000. The interior, designed by Mrs. Sopwith, contains a tiled swimming pool, gymnasium, eight guest staterooms and a hospital. When he goes "out to the States" in June...