Word: trusted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while Harvard trusts girls in its buildings, Radcliffe is not quite sure whether it will trust men in hers. For Radcliffe will allow none but her own to enter her buildings after 8:30 p.m.; in addition the college forbids alcohol to be served at any times, and spirits are a frequent refreshment at meetings. Merged activities, therefore, rely on Harvard buildings for evening meetings, giving the Harvard Dean's offices the responsibility of approving locations, finding chaperones, and recording all this data in triplicate...
...Rusk, Florence began by sweeping out the local bank for $15 monthly, at 24 became president of another tiny bank in nearby Alto and later the town's mayor. When a customer asked him to handle a $40,000 purchase of stock in Dallas' Guaranty Bank & Trust Co., Florence got Guaranty to deposit the money in his Alto bank (total capital: $25,000). This enterprise got Florence a job at Guaranty, which became Republic National in 1922 and made Florence president in 1929. When he joined the bank its capital and surplus...
...else asked to speak. Professor Briggs, after surveying the group, sighed, then breathed in deeply. "Gentlemen," he said, "I agree with Dickinson. Nor would it do if either the administration or the students learned that Professor Greg's former colleagues declined to pay him this homage. I trust that when the matter comes to a vote you will support...
...London, Makarios is almost as bad a word as Nasser. The British, who exiled him to the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean in 1956, do not trust his word. What was to prevent the Greek Cypriots, once they got independence, from deciding, for instance, to unite with Greece...
...elected as a public governor of the American Stock Exchange, the first woman to reach a major exchange's top policymaking board. Widow of Siegfried Roebling (grandson of the Brooklyn Bridge builder), Mary Roebling took over her husband's job as director of the Trenton Trust Co. in 1936, became president a year later, is now both president and chairman. In her reign, the bank's assets have swelled from $17 million to more than $90 million...