Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fashioned dignity of its royal owner. One day last week both received a nasty bump. Returning from a visit to the Royal Horticultural Society gardens with Queen Mary, Captain Lord Claude Nigel Hamilton, her controller and equerry, and Lady Constance Harriet Stuart Milnes Gaskell, a woman of the bedchamber, the high old limousine was caught on the right by a truck loaded with steel, skittered sideways, struck the curbing and overturned. The occupants were tumbled among automobile cushions and flowers, and the doors jammed shut. But eyewitnesses soon unscrambled the royal party and the Queen Mother climbed...
...years ago to let women study there but refused to recognize their presence officially. Denied regular students' privileges, women finish their studies at Cambridge not with a degree but only "the title of a degree." Last week, while London clubs were hemming and hawing, Cambridge's first woman professor was receiving congratulations on her appointment...
...infant's skull in a cave at Gibraltar, last year turned up 50,000-year-old remains of paleolithic man in the Balkans, has spent much of her life tenting on famed excavations in Palestine and Kurdistan. She was director of archeology and anthropology at Newnham College, a woman's college at Cambridge, before her appointment to the University's Disney Professorship of Archeology...
...Miss Garrod prepared to take her place next fall with Cambridge's 73 men professors, moot point was what she would wear to classes. Professors wear academic gowns, but by an unwritten rule no woman has so appeared in the University's halls. Last week the University authorities had not yet unraveled this question, but Miss Garrod gave them a hint by pointing out that a woman holding a titular Cambridge degree may wear a gown on "appropriate occasions...
...afternoon in Philadelphia last week the small, neat auditorium of Woman's Medical College was abuzz with 500 stenographers, teachers, socialites and charwomen, members of the first group that ever banded together specifically to ward off cancer in their own bodies. Last year Woman's Medical College, only institution of its kind in the U. S.,* got $2,400 from the American Medical Association...