Word: bearding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Said the first, whose white beard is short, trimmed: "I have given to this institution as chairman of the building committee three years of my entire time and energy. I have had no time whatsoever for my own business, which has been entirely neglected, besides having divorced myself from all other institutions with which I have been connected for 42 years. ... I therefore propose that this venerable rabbi shall be elected president of this great institution...
...second, whose white beard cascades generously to his chest, accepted the nomination...
...Hair-Trigger Governments in Southeastern Europe", Professor Charles A. Beard, Harvard...
...Haiv Trigger Governments in Southeastern Europe". Professor Charles A. Beard, Harvard...
...superintendent of the Culebra Cut of the Panama Canal, blasting and steamshoveling his way through mountains. To look old enough for the job he grew a beard. When he straightened out several miles of the Northern Pacific R.R. in Montana he risked the loss of $100,000 in equipment by discarding the slow mule-pack transportation and using cows through the swift currents of the Yellow stone River. In 1915 he decided China needed railroads, so he went there, got the concessions, built the roads. During the War he bored a hole through the mountains of Washington to reach...