Word: congers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After two years the Modern Museum plans to build its own building. Pledged for generous donations are many patrons who are waiting to see "if the thing is a success." Willing to take a chance, the committee of seven has already given the impetus-money. They are: Chairman Anson Conger Goodyear, Buffalo lumberman, onetime president of Buffalo's staid Albright Art Gallery, now an enthusiastic patron of modern art. Treasurer: Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr., patron, collector. Secretary: Frank Crowninshield, smart-art arbiter, editor of Conde Nast's Vanity Fair...
Lloyd Hahn, runner, had not lost a race for two years. Last week in Kansas City Ray Conger beat him and beat his record for 1,000 yards with a time of 2:11. Hahn stopped running. He walked to the tape with a disgusted expression and said that Conger stuck an elbow in him at the turn. None of the officials...
...metre distance; Cox of Penn State has done 4.18, and Goodwin of the New York Athletic Club can do 4.20 regularly. Enck, the I. C. A. A. A. A. champion in the mile who will run here in the Knights of Columbus and Boston Athletic Association metts, and Conger and Sivack of the Illinois Athletic Club, should rate up well on the American team...
...fruit of his reflection appeared last week at Manhattan stores (The Three New Yorkers, Inc., Abercrombie & Fitch Co., Mark Cross Co., Saks & Co., Fifth Ave., Lewis & Conger, Ovington's, B. Altman, Elizabeth Pusey) at a Chicago store (Peacock) and at a Los Angeles store (Barker Bros.). It was a three-wheeled barrow, of tea-wagon appearance, containing lock compartments for liquor, an ice receptacle, niches for bottles, glasses, ice-picks, opener, knives, spoons; a cedar drawer for 500 cigars; a tray; an oak board for slicing fruit; a musical attachment designed to play certain tunes. This machine-the "Baker...
Knud Rasmusscn, Danish Arctic explorer: "We all hope for the best. . . . There is especially the possibility of Amundsen going to Fort Conger or Cape Columbia, in which case nothing would be heard from him until the first mail from Thule [Antartica] about this time next year...