Word: whit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Keep, of Rangeley, Me., S. B. Northeastern '39; Raymond E. Lacy, of Gloucester City, N. J., S.M. N.Y.U. '40; Raymond E. Means, of Stillwater, Okla., S.M. U. of Illinois '32; Robert C. Sylvester, of Seattle, Wash., S.B. Washington '36; Clifford M. Wallis, S.M. '34, of Waitsfield, Vt.; Oliver W. Whit by, S.M. '40, of Teddington, England; Francis M. Wiener, S.M. '39, of Cambridge; Bedros Kayayan, of Istanbul, Turkey, S.M. Illinois...
...more for what they were than for what they did." Such, this week, was the "definitive" guess of Biographer Fuess, 55-year-old headmaster of Andover. Specifically, he admitted that Coolidge lacked "broad vision," originality, imagination. Such admissions testify to Biographer Fuess' fairness; they do not diminish one whit his great admiration for Coolidge...
...spite of the best will in the world, Chairman Bell did not appear to have got very far in letting stockholders have an effective voice in their company. Nor did it appear that General Mills' stockholders were a whit different from those of any publicly-owned company. The experiment seemed much more likely to prove that modern stockholders, although the beneficiaries of a company, are mostly a total failure in the old-fashioned role of proprietors...
...whit abashed by Robert Hutchins' pained protest that all this activity has nothing to do with education, Ohio State's Vice President Morrill likes to quote University of Minnesota's late, great President Lotus D. Coffman: "The State universities hold that there is no intellectual service too undignified for them to perform...