Word: drakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge nominated Professor Alfred J. Pearson (modern languages) of Drake University, la., to be the Minister to Poland succeeding Hugh Gibson...
Romance is dead, long live Romance! "Drake, he's in his hammock"; Frobisher likewise; only the ghost of Captain Kidd is still burying treasure, only a phantom Long John Silver is still digging it up. Writers of the present day can submerge themselves in the atmosphere of other times or more primitive climes and so produce a Sea-Hawk or a Lord Jim. But among the furnaces, the black smoke, and the steel girders of modern America, "where are the snows of yesteryear...
Hiram W. Johnson. So the Senator from California, sojourning temporarily in Chicago, the home of his chief backer, Albert D. Lasker, invited reporters to call on him at his room in the Drake Hotel at 5 o'clock of an afternoon. When they came he served them each with a mimeographed statement. In it was a summary of what the Senator believes to be wrong with the country and how he would right it, to which was appended the words: " Upon these as fundamentals . . . I will make my appeal. In every state the contest will be waged...
Recent exercises in Titusville, Pa., commemorated the discovery of petroleum by drilling there in 1859, by Edward L. Drake, "Founder of the American Petroleum Industry." Mr. Drake did not live long enough to realize the momentous consequences of his achievement, or its far reaching effects on industry. Indeed, it was a serious question with him whether the contents of his first " 20-barrel well" were not too large to ever be sold. Until the popular adoption of the automobile, petroleum was desired chiefly for its derivative, kerosene- such was the situation in 1906, when the American petroleum industry had combined...
Frederick Hales Drake (Physics...