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...Landon to mispronounce the word "Roosevelt" than for Mr. Roosevelt to mispronounce the word "government," a word which he uses continually in his "fireside chats" and invariably pronounces "govermunt;" for Mr. Landon to say "attackted" than for Mr. Roosevelt to pronounce the word "again" with a long "a" (Webster...
...conventions is electing new officers. Last week, I. B. A. chose to succeed President Hall a distinguished, white-haired Bostonian with a gentle voice named Francis Edward Frothingham, vice president of Coffin & Burr, Inc. since 1916. Born in Brooklyn in 1871, President Frothingham investigated utilities for years for Stone & Webster, was head of the public utilities division of War Finance Corp. An ardent yachtsman and traveler, he lives quietly in Cambridge, Mass, with his wife and daughter, enjoys riding, being vice president of the Boy Scouts of Boston. Said he of the utilities industry last week: "Shall the Government compete...
...George Emerson Lowell scholarships, awarded on the basis of a competitive examination under the Department of Classics, were won by Robert J. Cumming '38, of Banger, Maine, and Walter W. Webster '39, of Worcester...
...shovel, Sand Hog Bedaux was able after a few years to begin living the American success story of which he had dreamed in France. The new trade of "efficiency expert" had fired his imagination and he invented the Bedaux System of "B (for Bedaux) Units" now defined by Webster's Dictionary as "A system of wage payment in which work is subdivided into units equivalent to the number of minutes that a task should take and the payment of the worker on the basis of the number of points of work accomplished in a given length of time...
Well timed passes were responsible for most of Dartmouth's gains, while two netted touchdowns. In the first period Al Ley, right end, caught a 25 yard pass from left half-back, Hal Webster, to score the first six points. Jim Weaver, fast right half-back for Dartmouth scored the other two goals, the first when he intercepted a Harvard pass, ran 90 yards to score, and the other on a pass...