Word: bartonized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sages, Dr. James Henry Breasted, Orientalist of the University of Chicago and Dr. George Aaron Barton, Semitist of the University of Pennsylvania, debated on which was the older civilization, Egyptian or Mesopotamian. Dr. Breasted said that the Egyptians' technical attainments in medicine, art, science, sculpture and social organization predicted a civilization already ancient 5,500 years ago. Pharaohs mined copper in the Sinai Peninsula as early as 3400 B. C. Dr. Barton suavely pointed out that the Sumerians in Babylonia made gold and silver objects as early as 3500 B. C. and more beautiful than anything produced in Egypt...
...which he told his reactions, as a man, from the experience of being President of the United States, I did not, in any way, dictate what was to be written and I did not know what had been written until I read it in manuscript form. Neither Bruce Barton, nor any other professional writer, had anything to do with the preparation of the manuscript. Bruce Barton did know, through a personal letter from the President, that the first article had been written, but he had not the slightest idea of the contents of the article until I had received...
...Strother achieved a Washington reputation on the World's Work in the days when it dealt seriously (though safely) with politics. The World's Work, under Barton Wood Currie, onetime editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, now devotes itself to popular business tales, leaving to President Hoover the Strother erudition...
Meantime U.S. citizens in the stands, and there were many, had been straining their eyes for the silks of Billy Barton, the only U.S.-bred horse in the race. For a time he had raced well. Then, at the nineteenth jump−a rail obstacle, a difficult hedge and a ditch−he faltered and fell. Tommy Cullinan, thrown, jumped up and remounted. But Billy Barton was through. He fell again and with this fall went a small fortune, including a single...
...Ireland's oldtime Fairyhouse course and when the horses ran that year at Aintree it was Moifaa, the castaway, that won. And then there was Master Robert, winner in 1924, who used to pull a plow. This year a U. S. horse has been installed as favorite. Billy Barton, by Huon and out of Mary le Bas, owned by Howard Bruce of Baltimore, will carry many thousands of pounds sterling on his dark brown nose. Last year, as this year's cheering crowds will well remember, Billy Barton all but won. Leading, he reached the last fence...