Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...allowing a man to make use of the stipend for but two years the committee removes the stigma from those who find it necessary or desirable not to return for a third years. In many cases the type of education offered at Oxford is bound to vary from that expected or desired by the candidate who comes from a country of different traditions and standards. Two years should be sufficient to determine the possible value of a third, and if during this time the student finds that he has reaped all possible profit, it is unfortunate that the force...
...last year good Dr. Rusby tried to raise a scandal. It spread subtly to women and has scared them. Doctors, however, paid no attention to his exclamations. They knew that manufacturing druggists who use dirty Polish and Russian ergot cleanse and refine it thoroughly when preparing ergot extracts, that the extracts sold by reputable pharmaceutical houses satisfy the high U. S. Pharmacopœia standards for the drug. In addition to ignoring Dr. Rusby's scandal, they were vexed to learn that his good friend, Howard W. Ambruster, Manhattan importer, held a corner on all the Rusby-approved Spanish...
...surprised, therefore, when the great restriction plan last December came to an abrupt and official end. Only the Sugar Export Co. remained as a potential marketing machine for use in future emergencies...
...quoted in Miss Morini's advertisement in The Musical Courier as saying that she had "one of the most beautiful voices I have ever heard." Also quoted were the words: "Metropolitan Grand Opera Co." Later Mr. Kahn denied making or authorizing any such statement and said the use of the Metropolitan's name was "evidently intended to exploit for Miss Morini's benefit the name of an organization with which she has no connection whatever...
...Trustees George Willets Davison (Central Union Trust Co., Manhattan) and Albert W. Johnston. To procure it Trustee Davison had sent his bank's Berlin representatives to Frau Einstein with an offer to buy. Frau and Dr. Einstein, having no other offers, sold (sum unmentioned). They said they would use the money for welfare work among German university students...