Word: dexterous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First notable, prodigy was big-eared, bespectacled Lewis Anthony Dexter, offspring of two Ph.D.'s, pride of a Kendal Green, Mass. Progressive school. He scooted through Chicago in 17 months, grabbed his A.B. last March on his way out. That record stood until August when a 35-year-old Chicago housewife, Mrs. Martha Friedman Marenof, graduated in 16 months, a Phi Beta Kappa...
Last week 102 out of 124 factory employes were found to be suffering from skin troubles, especially acne. Governor George Howard Earle's Secretary of Labor & Industry, Ralph M. Bashore, filed a complaint. Quicker on the trigger was Dr. Martha Edith MacBride-Dexter, Pennsylvania's potent Secretary of Health. Last week she rushed a squad of public health inspectors to York. Surgeon General Cummings,* hearing of the trouble, promised Federal help to Governor Earle who telegraphed C. F. Obermeier, manager of the factory: "I appeal to your sense of public spirit and your regard for public health...
From 1891 to the World War, football passed through a series of struggles for its very existence. Grossing exaggerated charges of injuries incurred on two occasions threatened the game's demise, but Walter Camp, of Yale, on one occasion, and Dr. Dexter of Illinois, on the other, brought forward such irrefutable data to stamp the stories of the game's opponents with the proper degree of exaggeration...
...persons would take Dexter Keezer for a college president. Periodically since his graduation from Amherst in 1920, he has found academic life dull. For a year he was a reporter on the Denver Times. He took a Ph.D. in economics at the Brookings Institution but quit teaching after six years. From 1929 to 1933 he was associate editor of the Baltimore Sun. In 1933 General Johnson made him executive director of the NRA Consumers' Advisory Board...
...Dexter Keezer arrived at Portland last autumn with his wife and small daughter, solemnly sworn to become no stuffed shirt. Students made his acquaintance during the freshman-sophomore tug of war when the victorious sophomores discovered that one of the "freshmen" they had been dragging through the mud was new President Keezer (TIME, Oct. 29, 1934). Subsequently "Prex Dex" attracted even more attention by appearing in bright red duck pants. In the winter he could be seen carrying an armful of wood to heat a cold conference room. In the spring he played tennis and fished with his students, shocked...