Word: sheldon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he graduated he was awarded the Sheldon Prize Fellowship-$1,500 for a year's travel outside the U. S. He had looked forward to China: he had studied Chinese at Harvard, and he wanted to see what war is like. What he saw made him chuck traveling and go straight to work for the Chinese Government as a translator and writer in the Ministry of Information. Recently he realized the importance of Shansi Province in North China warfare, became impatient with meagre reports which were drifting out, and so decided to go and see for himself...
Another Thin Man (Myrna Loy, William Powell, C. Aubrey Smith, Sheldon Leonard, Asta; TIME...
...seventh to hold the Ames Scholarship. The others have been Richard B. Johnson '36, C. Colmery Gibson '37, John B. Bowditch '37, Sheldon Ware '38, J. Spence Harvin '39, and Lawrence...
Nick Charles reluctantly interrupts his drinking this time when guests of harumphing Colonel Burr McFay (C. Aubrey Smith) are awakened by a shot to find that the old man's throat has been cut. Suspect are various heirs and retainers of McFay and a clammy Cuban (Sheldon Leonard) who has perfected the cutest blackmailing trick of the year. He dreams twice that people die. If he dreams it a third time they do. So he assesses people to keep him from dreaming. By the time Nick has spent a quiet week catching the murderer, he has had a knife...
...Adamic, Hamilton Basso, John Chamberlain, Waldo Frank) sent a committee to Tri-State to study the health of the miners. Among the committee members: Economist James Raymond Walsh of Hobart College, Sociologist Esther Lucile Brown of the Russell Sage Foundation, Dr. Adelaide Helen Ross Smith, Manhattan silicosis expert, Socialite Sheldon Dick, Manhattan photographer...