Word: euclid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Euclid and East Ninth (Cleveland), Market and Sixth (Philadelphia), Broadway and West Forty Fifth (New York), Washington and Summer (Boston...
...early '90's, Mr. Rockefeller put his philanthropies on a wholesale scale. He had always been a devout Baptist, a Sunday school teacher since he was 20. When a comparatively poor man, in 1870, he gave $20,000 to help build the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church in Cleveland. His first huge gift was for a Baptist-affiliated institution of learning?the University of Chicago (founded 1892). He plunged into the giving business as systematically as he had into oil. He trained John D. Jr. to succeed him in both. And then, in 1911,** he entered the business of pleasure...
...success. Queen Victoria wrote to Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and asked him to send her some of his other books, whereupon, anxious to preserve the distinction between C. L. Dodgson and the frivolous Lewis Carroll, he sent her A Syllabus of Plane Algebraic Geometry, An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, and Euclid, Book V., Proved Algebraically. Years later, Lewis Carroll was prevailed upon to write about Alice again, this time Through the Lookingglass, in which Humpty Dumpty and the Jabberwock made their initial appearance. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson died...
...Francisco-so-called from the Dolores Mission which once stood there-corresponds to that section of many another U. S. city where stands the ghosts of a bygone gentility, old houses built for large, well-to-do families which have long since scattered or died out. Cf. Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, the "West Side" in Manhattan, Boston's "Back Bay" (still showing signs of life), Chicago's original "South Side" (almost erased...
When they descended from their trains in the grimy, shacklike Union Depot they found one W. H. French, pullman conductor of South Euclid, Ohio, singing to them a song he had composed. It went: "Welcome to you, welcome to you; Christian Endeavor, welcome to you!" The visitors were glad...