Word: dexterous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Please ask the members of the Interstate Commerce Commission how they feel at being pictured (TIME, Nov. 1, p. 63) as not knowing that The Flag of the United States should never be at the left ("sinister") end of a line, but always at the right ("dexter"), or "military right of line...
...small Reed College (Portland, Ore.) smart young President Dexter Keezer announced that he would break a 22-year Reed rule against kudos in favor of five men and women who had never received an honorary degree. Among President Keezer's discoveries were the New York Times's Labor Reporter Louis Stark (see p. 41), LL.D., Rudolph Forster, senior member of the White House secretariat, LL.D., and Willard W. Beatty, Director of Education of the Office of Indian Affairs, Ed.D...
Seven Charles Dexter scholarships totalling $4,095, permitting study in England, have been awarded for the summer...
...Dexter scholarships were established in 1922 from the bequest of Annie L. Dexter in memory of her father, Charles Dexter, to encourage young men to "to study profoundly the English language," and to enable them "to visit Oxford and Cambridge in England, or the cathedral towns in England...
...Chicago in two years (six quarters) or less, there have been a number of cases of students receiving the degree in three years (nine quarters or less and excellent students rarely expect to be forced to spend four years (twelve quarters) working for this degree. Sincerely yours, LEWIS A. DEXTER...