Word: terming
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...American Rhodes Scholars. The regulations of the professorship provide that the holder shall be an American eminent in any branch of research or university study. Elections to the professorship are made by a Board of representatives of the University of Oxford and the Association of American Rhodes Scholars. The term of appointment may be from one to five years, with the possibility of re-election. The professorship is attached to Balliol College...
...15th Congress. His chief distinction: a tirade and a vain vote in 1816 against increased pay for Congressmen which he refused to take himself. John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897) served from the 44th to the 50th Congress. Henry St. George Tucker, 76, is now serving his ninth noncontinuous Congressional term since 1889. His chief distinction: a tirade and a vote in 1927 against increased pay for Congressmen which, according to family tradition, he refuses to take himself...
...country. Attending members studied and discussed hospital improvement plans, cancer research, industrial surgery, treatment of fractures, eye-ear-nose-&-throat surgery, care of crippled children. Acrimonious was the discussion on hospitals. Charged William James Mayo: "I would call attention to the clandestine-if I may use so opprobious a term-method of increasing hospital income by exorbitant charges for the use of the operating room. . . ." Passionately retorted Director Warren Pearl Morrill of the Maine General Hospital, Portland: "If some surgeons would forego the pomp and circumstances demanded for their regal round of the wards, A remarkable scene was enacted...
Chairman of the Board to be elected by the Governors for a term of several years, indefinitely renewable. Expectations at Baden-Baden were that a U. S. citizen would be elected Chairman, might find the office a lifetime...
Campaigning for next year's presidency was hardbitten. Dr. Percy Howe of Harvard Dental School ended his term last week. Dr. Robert Boyd Bogle of Nashville, president-elect last year, assumed the presidency. Who would be chosen president-elect? Army dentists and those who served in the Dental Corps during the War electioneered for Col. Robert T. Oliver of the Army Dental Corps. Others wanted Dr. Martin Dewey of Manhattan. Incoming President Bogle was so eagerly interested in such association politics that he was typically ungracious to those few reporters who wanted dental information for their readers...