Word: ending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Georgetown on the Southern trip. William and Mary, Richmond, and Catholic University were the victims of the Harvard singers while the Quantico Marines repeated their 1928 performance by handing Coach Mitchell's charges their first setback of the season. The game with Columbia on Saturday was called at the end of the ninth frame with the count deadlocked 1 to 1 when it was decided that the freezing conditions were unfavorable to a further continuation of the battle...
There was really little more to say, though Mr. Lloyd George declaimed in masterly fashion for over an hour, concluding: "There are people who are saying we will not be in a position to fulfill this pledge [to end unemployment]. Of one thing I am not in doubt?we shall be in a position to compel its fulfillment...
...beef and bologna sausage. They fed pork and lamb, fish, chicken and guinea-hen, eggs and milk, toast gruel, oatmeal, rolls, potatoes, vegetables. And immediately after each meal, 'they slid a well lubricated yard of stomach tubing down each test case's gullet. By lowering the free end of the tubing they siphoned out a teaspoonful or so of the case's stomach contents and every few minutes they were able to study the progress of digestion...
...Herbert L. Pratt, Standard Oil of New York; W. T. Holliday, Standard Oil of Ohio; Edward G. Seubert, Standard Oil of Indiana (an absentee was Col. Robert Wright Stewart) ; Walter Clark Teagle, Standard Oil of New Jersey (one good Standard friend of Sir Henri's) ; and, at the other end of a long distance telephone, Kenneth R. Kingsbury, Standard Oil of California. Present also were Harry F. Sinclair, of Sinclair Consolidated, Ralph Clinton Holmes, head of Texas Corp. and of the oil committee that would have to superintend the carrying out of whatever oil-restriction agreements were made, and many...
...barrels of gasoline. an increase of 36.5% over 1927 and during 1928 increased its land holdings from 2,728,000 acres to 5,475,000 acres. President Holmes went from school room to oil company (Standard of New York, 1895), has been identified chiefly with the refining end of the oil industry, is co-inventor of the Holmes-Manley process for "cracking" gasoline...