Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty years ago a 25 -year-old Alabama War veteran named William Ed ward March Campbell went to work as a stenographer at $100 a month for the Waterman Steamship Corp. Shrewd, well-liked, he rose rapidly to traffic manager, then to vice president. But he was not happy in his job, and meanwhile he had been making a reputation in little magazines as a talented short-story writer. This fact, however, he kept a close secret from his business associates. His stories were published under the pseudonym of William March. His literary output and reputation, though not his literary...
Electing what the society termed "the eight intellectually most outstanding men, judging from their grades and from the recommendations of their tutors," the Harvard division of the national Phi Beta Kappa organization appointed the following Juniors: Robert S. Bart, Louis Hartz, Garfield H. Horn, Ward MacL. Hussey, George S. Kurland, Phil C. Neal, Paul Olum, and Stanley J. Sigel...
...Motlow wangled a law enabling him to reopen his family's oldtime Jack Daniel No. 7 bourbon distillery at Lynchburg. But not for 30 years, until last week, was it legal to sell liquor in Tennessee. That was due to the assassination of Editor Edward Ward Carmack of the Nashville Tennessean after the hot Governorship campaign of 1908, and to the piety of Tennessee's rural counties...
...Simpson immediately packed her off to a ward, ordered a big meal from the hospital kitchen while he questioned Mrs. Barber. He found that although she had eaten enough in the past year to feed a family of ten, she had lost 25 pounds. After a preliminary examination Dr. Simpson thought that Mrs. Barber's pancreas might be functioning abnormally, that it might be burning up too much sugar in her blood and somehow causing an excessive flow of digestive juices, which sharpened her appetite...
...time during the game did the academy players threaten. Thoroughly outclassed, they trailed 23 to 5 at the end of the first quarter and attempted in vain throughout the rest of the contest to ward off the barrage of Crimson shots...