Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rector Bydzovsky gave Boss Nejedly an honorary doctorate of education-the first ever awarded in Czechoslovakia. Nine Russians got degrees too, but Columbia's John Dewey and Oxford's Sir David Ross, who had been offered degrees, stayed home...
Invited to the Quai d'Orsay while preparing to visit New York, "Genêt" decided to skip what she thought was just a social reception. When she walked in on New Yorker Editor Harold Ross in Manhattan a few days later, he greeted her sourly: "I see you have got the Légion d'Honneur, and I don't think too highly...
...Lanny Ross, radio's perennial juvenile, fared no better with his ballyhooed NBC variety show. Without a microphone to cling to, Lanny faced trouble with his hands (this problem menaces all crooners...
John B. Cadigan, Jr. of Dorchester, Jay L. Failkow of Brookline and Adams House, Thomas R. Morse, Jr. of South Lincoln and Lowell House and Thorvald S. Ross. Jr. of Cambridge will assume their posts immediately...
Philadelphia gave minor recognition to some major authors. James T. Farrells Studs Lonigan (published in three volumes, 1932, '34, '35), Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road (1932), William Faulkner's Wild Palms (1939) and the late Ross Lockridge's Raintree County (1948) were among some 5,000 books seized by the police, who explained that they had had complaints from "parents, teachers, and ministers that these obscene books were coming into the hands of schoolchildren...