Word: bryn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Researchers stress that the work is in the preliminary stages and a surefire treatment for baldness a long way off. Says Dr. Anthony Zappacosta of Bryn Mawr, Pa., who prescribed the drug for several patients, some of whom were bald: "In most cases hair grows on the scalp for about eight weeks, attaining normal thickness and a length of around three-quarters of an inch. Then it falls out, and the growing process begins again." Such hair today, gone tomorrow results do not bother some medical students. They reportedly have been rubbing a crude minoxidil lotion on their thinning peaks...
...institute is four years old. Among its 200 members are a travel agent with a Ph.D. in medieval Irish history from City University of New York; a public relations executive with a Ph.D. in European history from Bryn Mawr, who is compiling biographical materials for Yale's Sterling Memorial Library; and a Columbia University Ph.D. now employed at the New York Stock Exchange, who has just co-authored an article on philanthropic housing from 1870 to 1910 for the Journal of Urban History...
...Judy," 40, says: "What got to me was that I found I was not getting results." A Bryn Mawr graduate who always wanted to be a teacher in a big city, she successfully taught English for eleven years in a Manhattan high school. Her enthusiasm began to falter three years ago when each of her five high school classes crept above the union maximum of 34 students. Says she: "No English teacher should have five classes. If you're trying to teach kids how to read and write, you simply can't do it-that...
...presidency of Harvard represented the culmination of a standard, upper-class upbringing that had several curious twists. Born March 22. 1930 in Bryn Mawr, Pa. to a Main Line Philadelphia family, Bok was the grandson of Edward W. Bok--the first editor of the Ladies Home Journal and author of the classic autobiographical study, The Americanization of Edward Bok. Bok's mother was a member of the Curtis publishing family--and after she and his lawyer/father divorced when he was five, Bok moved to Beverly Hills, Calif. Bok received his high school diploma from the Harvard Military School (no relation...
...most widely publicized endorsement of National Service came in a 1979 study called Youth and the Needs of the Nation, a Ford Foundation-financed effort, co-chaired by Jacqueline Grennan Wexler, former president of Hunter College, and Harris Wofford, long time Kennedy associate, former president of Bryn Mawr, and, like Wexler, a pillar of the liberal community. The report calls for engaging "a million or more young people in a new system of voluntary National Service designed to help meet this country's non-military needs." Though the report's conclusion calls for a "voluntary" program, it repeatedly cites...