Word: ardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...middle-distance record from 800 to 10,000 metres and last summer beat Nurmi at Warsaw, letting him set the pace and then, as others have done, passing him in the last hundred metres. In London last July he tried to beat all the best Englishmen the same day ard nearly did it. Beavers beat him at four mile and Cyril ("The Great") Ellis at a mile, principally because proud Petkiewicz tried to keep ahead of all competitors throughout each race, wasting his strength by sprinting against runners who would be used up a little further on. This...
Comparable, in the drug field, to Stand ard Brands of General Foods in the food field. Drug, Inc. has back of it no J. P. Morgan, no E. F. Hutton. Its central name has been Louis K. Liggett, board chairman and founder of L. K. Liggett Co. and United Drug Co. Beginning his merchandising career as a traveling salesman for John Wanamaker, Mr. Liggett soon went into business for himself, making and selling headache powders that sold three for a quarter. The headache powders were not very successful, however, as people only had one headache at a time and were...
Died. Mrs. Howard Kinsey, 68, of San Francisco, mother of Tennis-Players How ard and Robert Kinsey (U. S. national clay court doubles champions, 1924); in San Francisco...
Last week the London Evening Stand ard commented on the French reduction of visa fees : "France has so many advantages over Britain for the attraction of Americans that we can ill afford to put any obstacles in the way of the potential visitor. There is a tendency on this side of the Channel to imagine that all American travelers are so rich that a few extra dollars in the way of fees will not weigh one way or another. That is quite wrong...
...Henri, munching his pungent delicacy, might have come memories of the days in which he and John Davison Rockefeller would have constituted an extremely effective quorum on world oil-questions. What battles he had had with the old Standard Oil! How well he remembered the time when, after Stand ard had given away kerosene lamps throughout China, in order that the heathen might learn the advantages of kerosene lighting, he had stepped in and irreverently undersold Standard, thus filing free U. S. lamps with cheap Royal Dutch kerosene. Well, the old Standard was broken up now ? its pieces...