Word: davids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tunnel, named after David H. Moffat, famed railroad builder, is scheduled for completion in August. It will be used by the Denver & Salt Lake Railroad and probably leased to the Burlington and other lines. It shortens the route between Denver and Salt Lake City by 176 miles, cuts a 4% grade to 2%. Tunnels are usually thought of as underground things. The Moffat Tunnel is up in the air to the extent of 9,000 feet above sea level; but it is still 4,000 feet below the summit of James Peak. Drillers and dynamiters have been at work...
...London fiery Scotch Laborite David Kirkwood rose up in the House of Commons, shouted: "The Yorks are on a joyride that costs the Exchequer probably a thousand pounds an hour ($4,860). . . . Why aren't they going to Australia on an ordinary steamer? . . . They are good riddance at the uttermost ends of the earth, and it wouldn't matter an iota if they never returned...
...East River National Bank, New York (see p. 28). Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle and Dr. Arthur Schnitzler are unequivocally authors, whereas Dr. Joseph Collins and Dr. Richard Cabot make authorship complementary to medicine.* Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur quit medicine to take up the social chores that President Emeritus David Starr Jordan (also a graduate physician) began, and Dr. John Casper Branner carried on until his resignation...
...Authors Oliver Wendell Holmes, Eugene Sue, Victorien Sardou, Tobias Smollett, Dr. David Ramsay, were first doctors ; and Dr. Benjamin Rush was a signer of the Declaration of Independence...
...onetime (1921-24) Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby, and lately appointed Second Secretary of the U. S. Legation in Peking;* to Phyllis Cochran, in Philadelphia. He in turn was to be best man for his best man, brother Charles, who will marry Rosamond Reed, daughter of Senator David A. Reed...