Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Missouri, Dr. Manley Ottmer Hudson, 50, a graduate of William Jewell College at Liberty, Mo. and of Harvard Law School, was elected to succeed as a Judge of the World Court onetime U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings ("Nervous Nelly") Kellogg who resigned before his six-year term...
Britain's academic world. The Provost, who holds the office for life, is appointed by the Crown, must be a Master of Arts in the University of Oxford or of Cambridge, must reside in Eton College during the whole of every school term. Reputed to receive a stipend of some $25,000 per year, he must hold no other money-making...
...preferred would further the rich coal carrier's ambition to increase the proportion of stock to bonds in its capitalization. Present ratio is 44% stock, 56% bonds, which is conservative. So far this year C. & O. had refunded at lower interest rates $60,000,000 worth of long-term bonds, incorporating in the new issues sinking fund provisions which will retire the entire amount by maturity. A relatively novel idea in railroad finance, the sinking fund in the case of C. & 0. will be taken care of by the saving in interest charges resulting from the refinancing...
...write a story a week, for $100 apiece. Then about 40, 0. Henry was heavyset, thick-featured, brown-haired, courteous, extremely reserved about his past and generally silent in company. Author Williams had known him for years before he learned that the short-story writer had served a prison term in Ohio for embezzling a bank. The short-story writer and the cub reporter quickly became friends, with Williams showing O. Henry the city, standing with him at bars, listening to the stories of bums, streetwalkers, cranks that gave O. Henry the material of much of his fiction...
Although this step has been suggested before, it has up to this time been financially impossible without the permission for Red Book editors to charge their subscribers on the term bill--which the University so far has steadfastly refused to grant. This year it is possible only because last year's Red Book was more of a financial success than its predecessors. No longer will the classmate viewed skeptically over the Union's best Riverside Farm Eggs be only a familiar-looking stranger, and no longer will proctors, officials and coaches labor over University Hall files to organize their fall...