Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...science of chemistry. This is one of the largest prizes in existence, being outranked only by the Nobel prizes of about $40,000, awarded annually, and the Bok peace prize of $100,000, to be awarded but once. A committee of leading chemists will administer it, including Drs. Edgar F. Smith (Pennsylvania), Ira Remsen (John Hopkins), T. W. Richards (Harvard), C. F. Chandler (Columbia), F. P. Venable (North Carolina...
...Spectator (conservative London weekly) is running a series of American Portraits. The first has to do with William Edgar Borah. Excerpts...
Baptist Muzhiks. Dr. Edgar Mullins, of Louisville, Ky., arrived in the U. S. last week from Stockholm, where he was elected President of the World Baptist Alliance. (Tins, July 30, Aug. 6.) The Baptist type of church polity appeals to the Russian mind, in its present extremely democratic state, for each and every Baptist Church is free and independent, and all higher ecclesiastical organization is the voluntary work of churches which wish to cooperate without being subject to ecclesiastical domination. In 1914, when the Greek Orthodox Church was the State Church of the Tzars, there were only 100,000 Baptists...
...homely sentiments expressed In Poetry by Edgar Guest, Inspiring and Uplifting Thought Of 0. S. Marden go for naught; This Unregenerate Young Cuss Is utterly Impervious To what is recognized by You And Me as Beautiful and True. Right Thinkers all are in accord That such a one should be Abhorred; All Forward Looking persons Shun A Boy who never will be One Hundred Per Cent. American When he grows...
...Edgar said: " Beyond Dawo we began to get startling confirmation of the havoc wrought by a mighty force from the bowels of the earth. At one village we found that every house had been leveled to the earth and quite half of the inhabitants killed...