Word: wilder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George one of the Channel Islands, Jethou, stocked it with 10,000 books, 10,000 phonograph records. Here he spends what time he can spare from his villa at Capri, exercises some feudal privileges thrown in with his lease, such as flying his own flag. Lately he acquired a wilder, remoter island off the coast of Scotland. Jethou is now for rent. Besides his playwriting and book-writing activities Author Mackenzie edits The Gramophone and Vox, a weekly dedicated to candid criticism of London radio programs...
...also planned to place chairs and tables outside for the convenience of tired dancers. The Mesdames C. N. Greenough, Roger Lee, M. W. Stackpole, and J. B. Ayer will receive. V. E. Biscque '34, J. S. Plant '33, and Phelps Wilder '34 have been added to the original list of ushers, which follows: Karl Adams, Jr. '33, J. M. Bradley '35, W. I. Clark '33, J. W. Crickard '32, N. P. Dodge '33, J. B. Hawes '32, J. L. Madden '31, E. A. Mays '32, E. F. Noyes '32, H. B. Powers '33, E. E. Record '32, Samuel Spencer...
...retiring officers of Brooks House, who end their duties with this evening's dinner, are as follows: G. K. Martin '32, president; N. N. Cochrane '32, vice-president; and F. F. Wilder '32, secretary-treasurer. Reports of the year's work will be read by the executives and by the chairmen of the various committees which have been working this year. The committees include those of the Law School, the Graduate School, Medical School, Dental School, Foreign Student, Social Service, Missions, Speakers, Library, and Handbook...
McGill University at Montreal last week received another grant ($1,232,652) from the Rockefeller Foundation. The new funds will pay for a neurological institute under direction of Professor Wilder Graves Penfield, will attract more able men to Dean Charles Ferdinand Martin's notable company of medical authorities. The medical faculty already includes...
Professor Wilder Graves Penfield, 41, the star currently in the ascendant at McGill, trained at Princeton, Oxford (Rhodes scholar), Johns Hopkins. He studied under choleric Brain Surgeon Walter Edward Dandy of Johns Hopkins, interned under choleric Brain Surgeon Harvey Williams Gushing of Harvard, rounded out his training in London (with Surgeon Sir Percy Sargent, Neurologists Gordon Morgan Holmes and Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson). A final polishing at Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital, which Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness helped to endow with Neurological Institute, and teaching practice at Columbia University-then Dr. Penfield was ripe...