Word: davision
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As for Du Font's interest in tetraethyl, Alfred Sloan testified that it was G.M.'s Charles F. Kettering who suggested that rather than build a plant for making an antiknock component itself, G.M. should go into business with Du Pont, because "they were the best chemists in...
John W. Davis, lawyer, 1924 Democratic candidate for President. LL.D.
In the 1921 Davis Cup matches, Japan's Ichiya Kumagae sat in the stands at Forest Hills and excitedly watched his countryman, Zenzo Shimizu, whip Tilden in the first two sets 7-5, 6-4. Shimizu got within two points of match in the third set. Then Tilden shifted...
When he was not haggling with the U.S.L.T.A. over his amateur expense account or browbeating officials, Big Bill was taking on all comers on the courts. A self-made athlete who did not reach the top until he was 27, some 20 years after he first picked up a racket...
Davis, who was elected to honorary membership in the chapter earlier in the morning, added that "there is still enough vitality in Western Civilization to save us unless we insist on disemboweling our- selves."