Word: bain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South Dakota-born George Bain Everitt was first accountant, then cloak-and-suitman. He went into the Encyclopedia Brittanica Corp., dropped it for the textile business. In 1921 he went to Montgomery Ward, becoming president in 1926. At forty-three he is representative of Chicago's clan of young, debonair, clubmen-executives...
During Mr. Dawes' visit four treasure-hunters?F. W. Kealey, David Blair and George Williams, Britishers; and Wallace Bain of the U. S.?were poking about in the jungle covered ruins of Old Panama City with a gold indicator. They thought they might find riches buried by Pirate Henry Morgan after he sacked Panama in 1671. All they found was a few pounds of assorted jewelry, worth perhaps $3,000. So they proceeded inland to the Mayan ruins of Cocle. There they found acres of graves. From one grave they took a skeleton in copper armor plated with gold...
With the sending to the Fogg Museum of his collection of some 200 pieces of early Chinese pottery of the Han and Tang dynasties, Mr. Charles Bain Hoyt of New York has raised this branch of the Museum's possessions to a position among the three most important collections of Chinese pottery in the world...
...calling these witnesses was to contradict the testimony of the defense witnesses. Congressman Reid, counsel for Colonel Mitchell, attacked their testimony in crossexamination. He questioned one witness, trying to show lack of unity of command in the war games at Hawaii last summer. The witness, Major J. J. Bain, drew a distinction between "unity of command" and "unity of direction," and Mr. Reid insisted on an explanation of the difference. In the midst of the examination Mr. Reid whirled around toward Brigadier General Edward L. King, a member of the Court, and exclaimed: "I object to what the member...
...activities cover also portraiture, and life in France and India. Doubtless ,the best of Besnard's work is being saved for the Pittsburgh show, but the present exhibitions are proof of his right to fame. Such canvasses as Sous des Saules (two women robing under willows) and Le Bain Romain show versatility and suppleness...