Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rogers doubled to the left field wall in the second with two out, but was left. This was Harvard's sole hit until the fourth when Todd singled with one gone and scored on Hammond's mighty drive to center, which the fleet-footed Smith held to two bases. Samborski hit safely to start the fifth. Spalding pushed him along with a perfect sacrifice, and Jenkins scored him with a line single to right center...
...brake for stopping trains - now standard equipment for railways all over the world. The young inventor soon became fascinated by the possibilities of electricity, as developed by Bell, Edison and others. In 1880 he founded the Westinghouse Machine Co. for the manufacture of high speed engines to drive dynamos for arc lighting. He controlled the Union Switch and Signal Co., which manufactured railway equipment. In 1880 he met William Stanley, who had just invented a self-regulating dynamo for lighting service, and signed a contract with him to conduct experiments for the Union Switch and Signal Co. From this meeting...
...from Mr. George Fisher Baker of New York a gift of $5,000,000 as a permanent foundation for the Graduate School of Business Administration. The gift was made on April 23 but was only announced yesterday by Bishop Lawrence, chairman of the committee in charge of the present drive...
...Corporation below explains, will be used to build the new Business School plant across the Charles River. All of the buildings so built will be identified as the "George F. Baker Foundation". Inasmuch as $5,000,000 was the minimum quota for the Business School in the present drive; an attempt is being made by those in charge to have all of the other Business School gifts received in the drive to date shifted to the departments of Chemistry and Fine Arts...
...three hundred letters sent out to members, of 1927 who have failed to subscribe to the Class Fund only seventy have been answered. The Committee announced last night that to have these letters answered is necessary in order that the drive may be completed before examinations...