Word: companionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book on taxidermy, advertised in the Youth's Companion, was what started the Clarendon, N. Y., farm boy on his notable career. At 19 he was hired by a Rochester, N. Y., museum keeper to help stuff skins. Young Akeley knew animals too well to tolerate the straw-and-stick effigies contrived by his employer. He proposed and developed the plaster cast method used today by all museums. Later he evolved perspective backgrounds, painted in oils, to show specimens in their natural surroundings. His "Fighting Bulls" (elephants) at the entrance of the Field Museum, Chicago, brought him wide fame...
...Campbell-Ewald Company of Detroit; F. C. Kendall, Editor of "Advertising and Selling Fortnightly," New York; W. D. Moriarty, Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California, A. C. Pearson, Treasurer of the United Publishers Corporation of New York; Hartford Powel Jr., Editor of the "Youth's Companion", Boston; Louis Wiley, Business Manager of the New York Times; and Professor M. T. Copeland and Assistant Professor N. H. Borden of the Harvard Business School...
...second and less joyous climax comes a little later, at the end of a long lay's travel by camel in the icy gale of the desert plateau, when Jayne, Mr. Warner's companion "slid from his kneeling camel and fell fiat. He could not walk a step. I stretched him on the snow with his back to the blaze and took off his fur boots to find both feet frozen stiff," What this meant, in the midst of the howling desert, at that time of the year, with little food and less fuel and no medical attention is hard...
Married. Lucille Quarry, of the editorial staff of the Woman's Home Companion, to Dr. William M. Mann, superintendent of the National Zoological Park, Washington, who returned last fortnight from Africa with 1,700 live wild animals (TIME...
Proceeding up Mt. Aubura Street I shall then turn left on Boylston Street and continue along it to Lars Anderson Bridge. This bridge it has been said, was named in honor of a companion of the famous lief Erieson who sailed up the river now known as the Charles and built a house on its banks where he lived until driven away by the universites. Later investigation has, how ever, shown this story to be without truncation...