Word: angel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...giving Blue Ridge a $12,000,000 profit would have been to sell it 1,000,000 shares of Central States at 16 (12 points below the market). As to the seller, Harrison Williams' control of Central States and part sponsorship of Blue Ridge indicated him as Angel...
...staff of nurses and doctors with emergency stations at important terminals. Only three roads have their own hospitals: the Illinois Central, at Chicago, the Central of Georgia, at Savannah, and the Southern Pacific, at San Francisco (250 beds) and at Houston (125 beds). Last week Edward Stephen Harkness, good angel of many a school and hospital, gave $600,000 to the Southern Pacific to add a wing to the San Francisco hospital and to build a tuberculosis sanitarium at Tucson, Ariz...
President Angel has had much to say since the crystallization of the plans for the residential halls concerning class spirit and the efforts which will be made to restore some of its lost values. Unlike countless hundreds of alumni, not to mention a few hundreds undergraduates, he does not view the division of the College by classes in the same sacred and hallowed light as they do. On the contrary, the President is convinced that the mingling of members of four classes in the residential halls, while it will be the death knell of the class as a unit, will...
President Angel admits that undergraduate and alumni locality have focalized around the class. Then why discard such a potential weapon, for one which has yet to be tried and which, no matter how successful, can never even gracefully imitate such an essentially democratic and all-Yale line of division as the class? Yale is vexed with too many social lines of cleavage now, without adding a basically artificial substitute for the most popular method of division yet found. The class is one of the few weapons which Yale possesses to prevent the beast from biting the hand that feeds...
...volatile Latins lined the Avenida de Mayo reading round by round results flashed on bulletin boards in front of the newspapers La Prensa and La Critica. Afterward, ecstatic, they sang, cheered, paraded the streets until midnight. One man who did not parade: a pudgy auto salesman named Luis Angel Firpo, onetime "wild bull of the Pampas," who has boasted he could whip Campolo with one hand. In Campolo's little hometown, Quilmes, the populace surrounded his home, wildly cheered his aged parents...