Word: bays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...item which quotes my father as saying: "He feels like I did in 1908, not by any means like I felt in 1912." About 12 years ago my Uncle, Mr. Horace Taft, was distinctly heard by a number of members of the family at the Murray Bay lunch table to say of Tom Shevlin, "H« had himself paged in hotels by a boy waving an envelope like it was a telegram." He denied it and my father sided with him, saying that no Taft could ever use "like" as a conjunction. I feel certain therefore that he was misquoted...
...been spent to enable His Majesty the Tenno Hirohito to assume, through weeks of gorgeous pageantry, his full imperial station (TIME, Nov. 12, 19). Though the Emperor of Japan has no crown, the pageant was equivalent to a coronation. A concluding event last week was a review in Tokyo Bay of the Japanese Grand Fleet by the Emperor and Empress. Conspicuously in the Imperial suite stood Admiral Togo, great, venerable, famed. Proudly the small spectacled Tenno, whom Japanese adore as the Son of Heaven, surveyed the long, grim, double file of his grey war boats. This...
Charles Franklin Kettering, $500,000, John Wells, Inc., Defoe works at Bay City, Mich...
Railroad securities specialists have pondered many another example of freak financing. Wisconsin's Green Bay & Western R. R. (G. B. & W., unjustly parodied: "Grab Bag & Walk") issued Debenture B bonds which rank after the company's common stock. Authorized common stock of the Canadian National R. R. Co. totals $180,424,327.70. It is represented by one certificate, made out in the name of His Majesty, George V of England...
...gold; rarely, yet often enough to stir hope, they found a small diamond. Because similar diamonds have been found in Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin, in the terminal moraines of old glaciers, geologists figure that they were scuffed out of a parent field somewhere south or southwest of James Bay, the teat-like extension of Hudson Bay. That field has not yet been located...