Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entries in the one and a half mile run, the first three places were taken as follows: first, P. S. Dalton '31, 1-4 mile handicap; second, R. H. Phelps '30, 1-4 mile handicap; third, Sturdevant Burr '31, 1-4 mile handicap. Time--G minutes, 36 seconds...
...Aaron Burr founded it by ruse in 1799. The older Bank of New York & Trust Co., was founded 1784 by Alexander Hamilton, whom Burr later killed in a duel...
None knows better than Publisher Hearst the power of the pictured word. He also employs Cartoonist James ("Jimmie") Swinnerton, who pictures Tammany as a little tiger-yegg with a slouch cap; Cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper, of "Happy Hooligan" fame, who pictures Tammany as an old-man-of-the-sea on the donkey's back; Cartoonist Windsor McCay, nightmare man, creator of "Little Nemo," who illustrates the Hearst Sunday supplements with shuddersome, anti-Tammany compositions...
...Burr has been prominent in affairs relating to the college as well as interested in various organizations doing charitable and social work in Boston. Recently he was active as chairman of the Committee on the Harvard War Memorial. This committee was in charge of the raising of the fund for the Harvard Memorial Church...
...president of the Association is a member of the firm of Coffin and Burr, dealers in investment securities. He is a director of several corporations as well...