Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before starting out for more money, Barnard took steps to live within its present income. Resident students (about a third of the total) got a polite ultimatum: do your own housekeeping chores or pay more rent. The girls voted to do the chores. At the same time they were told that Dean Millicent Carey Mclntosh was taking an informal leave of absence, would put in her time scouting...
Living & Learning. Dean Mclntosh will bring to the task a calm flair for managing things. She comes of a Quaker family, went to Bryn Mawr when her aunt, Dr. M. Carey Thomas, was president. After a year at Cambridge, she took her Ph.D. in English at Johns Hopkins...
...regime on the Star. Last week Kauffmann, four other new officers and two new directors* ushered in the new regime. Six of the seven were named Kauffmann or Noyes; all were descendants of the first Samuel Hay Kauffmann or the first Crosby Stuart Noyes, who took over the Star...
...Partnership. Ruth Kerr is a Baptist. "Anything I've done," she says earnestly, "was accomplished because of what God has done." God has been a partner in the company since 1902, when debt-ridden Alexander Kerr, an obscure wholesale grocery man, took the tithing vow at Portland, Ore. Three months later, Kerr took a chance: he borrowed money to buy a patent on a glass vacuum jar that could be sealed at home. Kerr got a San Francisco glass works to supply his materials, and in four years had a profitable business...
...Francisco earthquake of 1906, he was first informed that the factory was "undoubtedly destroyed." Instead, the factory was "miraculously saved." After that, the Kerrs never doubted that God was on their side. When the two-piece lid (invented in their kitchen in 1915) boosted their business, Kerr gratefully took to putting tithing leaflets in every case of jars...