Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consider with awe another athlete who-until he helped Michigan win the Western Conference title last week, with 60½ points to Indiana's 47½had not often been heard of outside the Midwest, except as a member of Michigan's football team. He was Willis Ward, 196-lb. Negro sophomore. At the Big Ten meet in Evanston last week. Willis Ward won the 100-yd. dash in 9.6 sec. He won the high jump, placed second in the broad jump. In the 120-yd. high hurdles, he forced Ohio State's Jack Keller to world...
Adriane had served her long, hard novitiate as a probationer and a nurse; now she was a "sister" at South's Hospital, in charge of a men's ward. Capable though pretty, she never let anything come between her job and her. But her fiance. Jerry, had begun to worry her. Jerry's mother was a mean, sly old woman who did her best to break up the engagement; Adriane saw through her but Jerry could not. As a last gambling expedient Adriane lured Jerry away for a weekend with her; when he left her flat...
...sent in Mr. Lewis's card and finally the head physician saw me. He refused to answer any questions. However, an interne told me that he was dismissed for writing descriptions of beaten patients on the hospital charts. There were 15 serious Jewish cases in his own ward. Jews beaten until injured for life, one nearly blind, one who had to be sent to an insane asylum, one with many stab wounds in his arm, another shot through the leg many times...
Commander Macneil studied at the University of Michigan, sidetracked into electronics, plopped in the Wartime U. S. Navy. He is a solemn, slight man turning 50, whose friends consider him commercially hapless because he has let others profit from his inventions. Friends therefore have put a ward over Commander & Mrs. Macneil. Their "managing secretary" is Mrs. Ruth Mitchell Knowles, sister of General William ("Billy") Mitchell...
...still gets $12,750 a year as executive committee chairman of affiliated Denver and Rio Grande, $6,000 as president of Missouri Pacific Trans- portation Co. (bus line). ¶ In Chicago, result of disclosing that he gets $100,000 and has an option on 100,000 shares of Montgomery Ward stock at $11 (TIME, April 10), President Sewell Lee Avery was questioned by stockholders at their annual meeting, explained that he had refused an offer of $100,000 a year to take the job until the stock option was offered as an added inducement. Last week with Montgomery Ward selling...