Word: tome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four years ago Marshal Wu went into the bleak, howling wilderness of Tibet (TIME, April, 16, 1928). There in a monastery perched on a mountain crag he composed a tome of Buddhist poems, painting each character daintily with his artful brush. This scholarly job done and his Fatherland being still stricken by famine, pestilence and war, sedate Scholar Wu buckled on again the sword of a Marshal, returned from lonely Tibet to overcrowded China and today looms potently upon the scene. Equally to President Chiang Kai-shek of China and to Marshal Wu was addressed last week a most amazing...
Campus slang is fluid, capricious, varying from place to place. Last week the Columbia Spectator brought its readers briefly down to date, explaining that a complete campus slang dictionary "would probably fill a ponderous tome." At Miami University alone, it recalled, a survey by the English department revealed 103 terms for intoxication, 56 "ways of directing undesirables to take their leave," 62 names for Fords, 174 "undesirable mental conditions...
...Eager, Tome School, Port Deposit, Md.; George Ehrenfried, The Phillips Exeter Academy; E. I. Epstein, Boston Latin School; H. A. Fierst, Mt. Vernon High School, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; R. M. Fisher, Boston Latin School; Maurice Franks, Lawrence High School; N. R. French, Noble and Greenough School; Peirce Fuller, Middlesex School; Otto Gambacort, Boston Latin School; E. F. Gardner, Boston Latin School; P. E. Geier, University School, Cincinnati, O.; Benjamin Geisinger, Boston Latin School; Comstock Glaser, Deerfield Academy, Deerfield; V. B. Glunts, Boston Latin School;; C. E. Gold, Boston Latin School; Carl Goldberg, Boston Latin School; Reuben Goodman, Brockton High...
...week of the Borah of France, Senator Victor Berard, 67, Chairman of the French Senate's Foreign Affairs Committee. He, the scholarly assistant director of the Ecole dcs Hantes Etudes, resembled Senator Borah in exceedingly few respects. After 44 years of preparation, Senator Berard published recently his great tome Did Homer Live? Weighing the evidence pro & con with vast erudition, he cautiously concluded that Homer in all probability did live...
Died. Rev. Dr. James Cameron Mackenzie, 78, organizer and headmaster (1882-99) of Lawrenceville School at Lawrenceville, N. J., which he modeled on the house plan of Phillips Exeter Academy and the British public schools, reorganizer of the Jacob Tome Institute at Port Deposit, Md. and its headmaster for two years; of heart disease; in Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y. Founder and headmaster of his own Mackenzie School at Dobbs Ferry (later at Monroe. N. Y.) from 1901 until he retired in 1926, he declined invitations to be headmaster of Phillips Exeter, president of Lafayette College, superintendent of Philadelphia...