Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weekly as lamplighter for Worcester, Mass., gas lamps. Twice, on cold January nights, he skipped one light on his beat For the first omission he was rebuked; for the second, discharged. Said Mr. Ley, many years after: "The greatest of all virtues is thoroughness. Nothing is ever really done until it is done right. This lesson I learned early in life...
...those of President James Abram Garfield and his assassin Charles Jules Guiteau; and Grant's second Vice President, Henry Wilson,† "I, Daniel Smith Lamb," he wrote in his will, "object to burial or incineration and had rather after my death, and if practicable, before any embalming is done, that an autopsy be made upon my body by some competent person." The competent person whom he preferred is Dr. Aleś Hrdlička, who is a doctor of medicine as well as chief anthropologist for the Smithsonian Institution. "Dr. Lamb was too dear to me," said Dr. Hrdli...
...Work Done. The Senate of the U.S. last week...
Observers of the swift-winged Hutchins rise, wondered who was behind this last, most notable flight. Undoubtedly President Angell fostered it. But who in Chicago? Because he is determinedly the University's "mystery man," it could not be told definitely how much Harold Higgins Swift, potent packer, had done or said. Many are the donations of money and ideas that come from the office in Chicago's stockyards where Mr. Swift functions as vice president of Swift & Co. and a director of Libby, McNeill & Libby. But he keeps most of his enthusiasm and efforts for the University anonymous...
Denials make poor reading and worse information; a sweeping denial, it is true, may close discussion on a subject, but the mere bolting of a single door piques the curiosity in regard to all the others. In the present case, the real question hinges on what is to be done with the present H. A. A. surplus not what definite sum it is not going to be allowed to accumulate to. It is too much to hope that Harvard men will continue smilingly to pay five dollars a ticket to see football games when part of this sum is going...