Word: drake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Drake into ducks...
...field as soggy as a silo floor the team of the University of Nebraska, popularly known as the Cornhuskers, made ducks of Drake, 21 to 0. Iowa, with a plunging backfield, beat Colorado Teachers' College...
Hupmobile. Hupp Motor Co. directors last week declared a 10% stock dividend, ordered a 35-cent quarterly cash dividend, and shifted their officers about-to make Charles D. Hastings chairman, Dubois Young president. Former chairman J. W. Drake takes a turn at the vice presidency...
...mounting and filing of the 250,000* letters written and received by William Howard Taft during his Presidential term in 1909-13. The Taft-Roosevelt letters prior to their break will be published, among others, posthumously. Two handsome young matrons, Mrs. Alfred F. Madlener, and Mrs. John B. Drake Jr., daughter-in-law of John B. Drake (hotels), went to Chicago's grimy LaSalle street station to greet their father, Frank O. Lowden, the Farmer's Friend, as he stepped off the Twentieth Century Limited, home again after two months of watching German and Scandinavian farmers at their...
...Assistant Superintendent Flora Drake of Indianapolis phrased the same idea more poetically: "A school is a 'child garden,' to translate a German term. An expert gardener should know the peculiarities of each species of plant he tries to keep growing in his garden." U. S. Commissioner of Education John J. Tigert discussed the drawbacks of democracy: "It is quite clear that democracy which has breathed so much vitality into the schools of the present generation, may be carried to the point where it will become an evil which can be equaled only by the good it has accomplished...