Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honorary M. A. He pretended that he already had the rank of Doctor (of Engineering), a rank highly esteemed in Europe.* He went about Oxford arm-in-arm with England's intellectually great and smart. Dr. Owen next persuaded the Ministry of Agriculture that he should visit the U. S., to study advanced methods in agricultural schools. He returned to England with the glad news that in California his wife had stumbled upon her long-lost mother and that the old lady, believe it or not, had become fabulously rich in oil! She had given her daughter an income...
...involves Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt's candidacy as Democratic Presidential nominee. Ambitious Governor & Mrs. Roosevelt are striving mightily to build up voters' goodwill and sympathy. (So preoccupied is he especially, that Mrs. Roosevelt must make specific appointments for any of their five children and two grandchildren to visit him.) Governor Roosevelt dares not alienate the powerful medical profession and its allied professions, arts and businesses. And he needs, apart from the populace, the goodwill and co-operation of political machines. In California Dr. Coffey, chief surgeon of the Southern Pacific and the Dollar Line, is a powerful political...
...glass partition at the store's rear. The proprietor was not busy. He rarely is these days. The exploring business is at low ebb. And that is strange. Heretofore during business depressions idling executives and fortune seekers have packed off to far wildernesses. But not this year. They visit Mr. Fiala, gossip wistfully a while, then go mooning home. He has perforce reduced his advertising. The exploring business this season is mainly professional. Mr. Fiala's big customers are the Wilkins and Williams expeditions into the Arctic, the Dickey expedition through the Orinoco country. A goodly number...
...faint harmonics. No lavish diapasoner of thundering chords, Andre Gide picks out his effects with a spare but accurate choice. habelle is the story of love at first sight that withered not from Time but from a second glance. Young Student Lacase, searching materials for his thesis, visits the queer country household of La Quartfourche. They are all old people there except one crippled boy, grandson to one couple, great-nephew to the other. The boy's absent mother, Isabelle. still young, still beautiful, is never mentioned. But she is allowed to come back twice a year...
...returned to the practice of medicine in 1924 as a consultant in internal medicine. Clark, a member of the law firm of Root, Clark, and Buckner of New York City, received his LL.B. from the Harvard Law School in 1906. He is member of the Overseers Committee to visit Harvard College...