Word: d
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...D. M. LAWSON...
...only of the 18 accomplished a "clean performance." This was Major Harry D. Chamberlain who is the son of an Army man; an instructor in the Fort Riley, Kan., military school; about 35; nervous when he is not sitting on a horse. On Dick Waring he took every fence, the little one at the start and the long jump near the the end, without knocking down or touching...
Last week, in Goettingen there was again activity, rejoicing. Professor Adolph Windaus of the University was notified that he had won the 1928 Nobel prize for chemistry. Achievement: explanation of the nature of the provitamine, from which is derived Vitamine D, useful in curing rickets. Thus he became the second resident of Goettingen to be so honored. The other, Dr. Professor Richard Szigmondy, won the 1925 Nobel chemistry prize. The 1927 prize for chemistry was awarded to University of Munich's professor Heinrich Wieland...
...Soviets faced a famine and would have to start buying U. S. grain. To spike this rumor up rose potent Saul G. Bron, Super-Purchasing & SuperSelling Agent of the Soviet State in Manhattan. Mr. Bron is large, untidy, jovial, shrewd and bland. He is a University of Zurich Ph. D. He served apprenticeship to his present post of huge responsibility as Minister of Foreign Trade for the Ukraine. With all the emphasis at his booming command Saul G. Bron said: "Regardless of all difficulties and obstacles, one thing is clear to me, and that is that the harvest...
...years to come. In 1893 the Crimson cohorts surprised the football world by taking the field in leather breeches. In 1894 all home football activities were transferred from Jarvis to Soldiers Field. This decade also gave to Harvard the world's greatest punter and Harvard's great coach, Percy D. Haughton '99, the world's second best quarterback of all time according to Walter Camp, Charlie Daly '01, and Marshall Newell '94, one of the few starts of football history who have detested the game...