Word: epitaphed
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...only epitaph he would have wished is this..."He was a good reporter...
...first annual report Dean Ferguson has erected an impressive monument to the late tenure controversy, and inscribed thereon a sad and gentlemanly epitaph to the ten assistant professors. With a wealth of facts and figures the Dean has traced the origins of the tenure crisis which broke last year--the over-expansion of the optimistic twenties, and the retrenchment necessitated by a stationary budget and the Committee of Eight's new rank system. He describe the care with which the Administration regretfully lopped off the now-famous ten, and points out that while ten men were fired, about twenty-three...
...Wall Street's head, in sun-flecked Trinity churchyard, lies the dust of Capt. James Lawrence beneath his self-written epitaph: "Don't Give Up the Ship." Dead with him is the naval tradition of wooden ships and iron men, of boarding parties and the cutlass: the soul of the new navy is in intricate organization, in armorplate, in complex fire-control mechanisms and in 16-inch guns...
...from underwriting; three Morgan partners, including bland Henry S. Morgan (J. P.'s younger son), accordingly split off to form a new partnership, Morgan Stanley & Co. J. P.'s elder son, Junius Spencer, stayed on as a Morgan partner. The foreign loan busi ness was dead; its epitaph the Johnson Act which forbids U. S. sale of securities of governments defaulting to the U. S. Government. Meanwhile Morgan partners were retiring, dying; from the partnership their heirs drew millions for inheritance and inheritance taxes. By last year's end the House of Morgan's capital funds...
After searching through his violent, labyrinthine books, the family of late Novelist Thomas Wolfe culled an epitaph for his Asheville, N. C. tombstone from his posthumous novel The Web and the Rock: "Death bent to touch his chosen son with mercy, love and pity, and put the seal of honor on him when he died...