Word: dyers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...site of the exploratory holes, provincial geologists claimed the entire district for the Ontario government, to prevent land speculating. Chief geologist W. S. Dyer estimated that the newly discovered lignite could be profitably marketed at from $5 to $6 a ton, exclusive of freight...
...Mason '30. Time-9-4-5 sec. Second heat--won by Kieselhorst (Yale); second, Sachs (Penn); third, Finn (Boston College). Time--10 1-5 sec. Third heat--won by Bowen (Pittsburgh); second, Kastler (Penn); third Andrews (Princeton). Time--9 9-10 sec. Fourth heat--won by Harwood (Syracuse); second, Dyer (Stanford); third, MacDonald (Yale). Time--10 sec. Fifth heat--won by Maurer (Southern California); second, Wildermuth (Georgetown); third, Stevens (Dartmouth). Time--10 1-10 sec. Heat for third men (two to go into semifinal)--won by Mason; second, Finn (Boston College). Time...
...Colgate); second, Kastler (Penn); third, MacDonald (Yale). Time--21 9-10 sec. Second heat--won by Wildermuth (Georgetown); second, Wehner (Southern California); third, Morin (Holy Cross). Time-21 8-10 sec. Third heat--won by Engle (Yale); second, Harwood (Syracuse); third, Mason. Time--22 sec. Fourth heat--won by Dyer (Stanford); second, Sacks (Penn); third, Gill (Yale). Time...
...slight, irrelevant and disappointing an approach to a noble theme that we have ever read. There is no depth, no irony, only a flat-chested humor of the most nasal resonnance. The diction throughout is based on the questionable philosophy that France is full of Frenchmen. Little Arlette, the dyer-kiss do-de-o-do (but I loof heem, ah mon Dieu how I loof heem). Jacques the melancholy boulevardier (you ave hask me eef I spik ze English?), and Mimi the cockeyed marmoset, are really but two-dimensional characters. They never really exist. With that amen of thankfulness...
...usual variety of stock split-up was reported by Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts, Ltd., of Canada, shareholders approving a three-for-one split-up, with rights. Hiram Walker is, of course, famed as whiskey-maker. U. S. interest in the split-up was keen in Missouri, whose Congressman Leonidas Dyer recently purchased Hiram Walker stock without knowing the nature of the product and sold, precipitately, at a loss, when the horrid truth became evident to him. Congressman Dyer talked of suing the Manhattan Curb to get back his lost money. Had he not been so hasty in disposing...