Word: enters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...football team which a few years ago attained national renown should have a moment of prayer before each game, there is surely no reason why the common run of undergraduates, about to enter a three-hour struggle not with their equals in ability but with examiners of far superior mentality to theirs, should not seek strength for the unequal contest. There can be no question, furthermore, but that the proper frame of mind, which many seek by prolonged slumbers or revelry the night before, can be more quickly obtained in the cloistered quiet of the chapel. In the Ecclesiastes there...
...that powder grows old. Small-arm ammunition lives 10 years; artillery shells, 20 years. Also, the War Department has many a new type of gun which it wants to try out. Requests for orders would come no faster than the War Department needs arise. No question of profiteering would enter because the orders would be on such a small scale, "and, in fact, we could watch the profit very easily." The proposed "educational" orders would add only three millions to the War Department's 392-million-dollar budget. In return, U. S. factories would surely contain models...
Born in a poor stone hut, there is now no palace that the native peasant girl of the Romagna might not enter. She has been a toiler in the fields, a gatherer of grapes, a shepherdess, a household servant, even a tavern tap-wench. Today, by a pretty pirouette of Fate, she is the consort of a man on whom Italy has bestowed the Collar of the Annunziata. He who wears that supreme badge and his wedded wife are both legally "cousins of the king...
Myron Charles Taylor, the 54-year-old Quaker, was born in Lyons, New York. After graduating from Cornell, in 1894, he practised law in Manhattan until his legal connections brought him an advantageous opportunity to enter the textile industry in which other members of his family already held interests. None of them had ever displayed the energy or ability which characterized the operations of Myron Taylor. The consolidations which he effected, his ability to push his companies into prosperity, attracted the attention of financial bigwigs, especially the attention of George Fisher Baker, Chairman of the First National Bank of Manhattan...
...Foundation-"cultural centre" of five schools and a church-on his estate in northern Michigan (Bloomfield Hills). A children's school and a boy's school, already open, will be followed by a school for girls. They will finally prepare for college, or encourage the talented to enter the school of arts and crafts and the academy of art, yet to be founded. Artists and craftsmen of high repute-Eliel Saarinen,, Finnish architect, Geza Maroti, Hungarian sculptor-will instruct apprentices, form a colony...