Word: transferences
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scramble for embassy chairs left one diplomat awkwardly standing, Lawyer Joseph E. Davies. He had just returned from the Soviet Union to see the President and told the press: "I'll go anywhere the boss sends me." Included in last week's Presidential recommendations was the transfer of Ambassador Davies from the grandly colonnaded embassy at Moscow to the smaller, iron-fenced embassy at Brussels...
William J. Simmons '39, a transfer student from Lincoln College in Baltimore, was elected King of the Wellesley Snow Carnival after a long and hard fought election Saturday night...
...notable feature of his trip was its hardships: he was seasick on the Lancashire going South ("I would not wish an enemy's dog a sorer punishment than this deadly seasickness"), exasperated by the slowness of railroads as well as by the smoke in cars that threatened to "transfer us into bacon," frightened by the possibility that the train would go off the track or a rail come through the floor of the car. On steamers he was afraid of fire. He was relieved when he got into stage-coaches, but on one a driver was drunk, on another...
...controls the profitable paper, and John Walter, fifth generation descendant of the Times's founder. Shareholder Astor of the English branch of the Astor family, bought the holdings of the late Viscount Northcliffe 15 years ago. To insure that no unworthy shall gain control of the Times, no transfer of common shares by a living holder to anyone except Owners Astor and Walter can be made without approval from an austere committee whose members are the Speaker of the House of Commons, Governor of the Bank of England, Warden of All Souls, Oxford, Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief...
...laboratory facilities of the department of mechanical engineering are housed in the Gordon McKay Laboratory and include apparatus for instruction and research in a variety of mechanical engineering problems, and in addition the Dunbar Laboratory has been specially equipped for research on heat transfer and thermal measurements...