Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glad of that, glad the whole War was long over and done with, when he last week took charge of a U. S. flying field named for one of the greatest U. S. aces, Major Edward Vernon ("Eddie") Rickenbacker...
...group of natives from Niagara Falls, N. Y., approached Mr. Adams about organizing a power company. Three such projects had already failed; $800,000 had been thrown away. Mr. Adams said that if he could have a six-month option, he would see what could be done. He consulted mechanical engineers, notably Dr. Coleman Sellers of Philadelphia. He cabled to Inventor Edison, who was having a triumph in Paris: "Has power transmission reached such development that in your judgment scheme practicable...
After their ritualistic chores were done for last Sunday, Manhattan's Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning and Baptist Harry Emerson Fosdick proceeded that evening to the former's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. There theocrat and minister watched 2,000 trained nurses march up the aisle and take their rustling seats. Many a nurse wore the Red Cross uniform of crisp white dress and redlined blue cape. It indicated both that she had been graduated from a high school and that she had taken special courses in war nursing. Most of those at the Cathedral had served...
...view of this declaration, the story which TIME, May 13 reported as being current in diplomatic circles was evidently erroneous. TIME regrets any injustice thereby done to Publisher McLean...
...Harry Wayman, expelled President of Des Moines University, whose face is infinitely sad and who last week said: "If it were possible to banish Dr. Shields to some island under the sea. a great step would be taken in the interest of humanity but great injustice would be done to the fish of the sea." The Shields-Wayman controversy which everybody discussed at the Buffalo convention had reached its high point the week prior in a student egg-and-rock riot at Des Moines University (TIME, May 20). Dr. Shields, as President of the Trustees, demanded from University President Wayman...