Word: ward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That Grace Knight Babson, wife of financial prognosticator Roger Ward Babson, conducts a business school, Webber College, for young lady heiresses at Babson Park, Fla., is not news. That for the first time the school will operate for nine months, spending the Fall and Spring terms in Boston with classrooms in the gaudy Hotel Lenox, is news...
Died. James Rosedale Wadel Ward, 103, linguist, physician, diplomat, onetime private secretary to Empress Eugenie of France; in Manhattan. He spoke 21 languages, seven dialects, was with explorer Sir Henry Norton Stanley in Africa. Upon his father's death (age: 106) Mr. Ward succeeded him as British consul in Palestine...
Because Hartman Corporation (originally mail order) is world's largest retail furniture concern (48 stores in Chicago and Midwest) and because, as everyone knows, Montgomery Ward & Co. (originally mailorder) is branching into myriad branches, a deal loomed. Last week the deal was closed: Montgomery Ward giving stock in exchange for Hartman's business which betters $17,000,000 annually...
High Cost of Babies is curtailing size of U. S. families, commented Providence's John William Keefe, He would improve the midwife qualifications of general practitioners and have community hospitals lower their maternity ward charges...
...timely warning to any prospective loafers would not be out of place here. Professor Ward demands precision in his students just as he exercises it himself. With proper attention, however, Meteorology 1 should provide some of the most lasting and interesting knowledge of the whole college course...