Word: welching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summary: PROVIDENCE COLLEGE HARVARD Shapiro, Perrin, r.f. l.f., Baskervill, Schroeder Welch, McCormick, l.f. r.f., Matursevitch, Rauh Koslowski, Roberge, c. c., Pattison, Upton Brachen, Grubert, Reavey, r.g. l.g., Reisner, Huppuch Gainor, Hyte, Cody, l.g. r.g., Hageman, Dorman...
...grey-haired Major General Lionel Charles Dunsterville, better known as the original Stalky. Poet Kipling did not attend. He stayed with his big, quiet, little-known wife, thinking. Days like the days of his youth seemed at hand. Last week a detachment of 400 officers and men from the Welch Regiment and the Royal Scots sailed for duty in India. The replacement was no larger than usually sails at this time of year, but the men knew, Mr. Kipling knew, the world knew that Britain was preparing for serious trouble. The India Office issued a bulletin...
...dinner, which was formal despite its professed informality, were Mr. & Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Dr. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Dr. William Henry Welch of Johns Hopkins, and five dozen other notables. Mr. Rockefeller, at ease among intimate friends, recalled what a young man (27) he was when Drs. Smith, Flexner, Welch and others organized the Rockefeller Institute. Dr. Welch saluted Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Rockefeller, and other ladies present, with an old bachelor's old quip, forebore retelling his more jovial stories...
...Theobald Smith is 72. With Dr. Welch, Dr. Flexner, Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly of Johns Hopkins and a very few more, he is one of those fortunates now alive who grew up with modern medicine. Amazing Louis Pasteur (1822-95) had scarcely proven that microbes cause disease, contentious Robert Koch (1843-1910) had scarcely demonstrated how to cultivate germs, when in 1884 Dr. Smith -who was then only 25, and the late Dr. Daniel Elmer Salmon (1850-1914) who was then 34-proposed creating immunity against disease with products of the bacteria which caused the disease. With this idea they...
From this pitch of lyric arson, Cyprus' revolt inevitably calmed down as armed Britons rushed to Storr's aid. It took a troop of Royal Welch Fusiliers all night to bump 50 miles over awful roads from their encampment on Mount-Troodos. But soon after dawn their mud-spattered trucks snorted into Nicosia and the mob was cowed...