Word: competitione
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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He knew a short, plump, brown-eyed, dark-haired schoolteacher with a wealthy sire and Puritan blood. Her name was Laura Celestia Spelman. When they were 25 each, John D. married her. The next year (1865) from dabbling tentatively in the oil that was gushing up in Ohio, Pennsylvania and...
In 1907 Federal Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fined Standard $29,240,000, largest fine in history. Said Judge Landis: "You wound society more deeply than those who counterfeit the coin." Even had Standard paid the fine, it would have been a mere drop out of the Standard bucket. In 1911...
*Julius Seligson of Lehigh University, 1928 titleholder, was defaulted when he failed to appear for his semi-final match. His unaccepted explanation: he thought it was raining. †First year of competition.
Supreme Court Justice Thomas C. T. Grain, therefore declared on those merits of the case which were, admissible, ruled the Bosch name an American Bosch Corp. property, denied to Inventor Bosch the right to use his own name to sell his own products. Should the appeal of the Robert Bosch...
Competition between the English and American collegians dates back to the nineteenth century. The first set of games was held in London in 1899. Then, a team headed by J. T. Roche '99 of Harvard and T. R. Fisher '99 of Yale lost to Oxford and Cambridge 5-4.