Word: fielding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Climax of the celebration was the pageant "The Making of Nebraska" at Ak-Sar-Ben field with 1.300 performers. It began at the geological beginning. Several men carrying torches represented volcanoes and lava. Groups of maidens took the parts of stars, seas, land, flowers. Girls in white garments were the Glacier. Girls in bulky costumes typified Solid Land. In Act II a band of Sioux chased a band of Pawnees, then performed a Sun Dance. Next came Spanish conquistadors, French Jesuits, Scouts Lewis and Clark, frontiersmen, Stephen A. Douglas. To end the pageant all joined in singing "The Star-Spangled...
First he telegraphed urgent orders that reserves should be rushed to the war section in Honan for a "grand offensive." Secondly, he wired that his armies would "sit composedly and starve the rebels out." Within 48 hours, and without previous warning, the President's field headquarters radioed: "The dead are piled mountain high. We have recaptured Mihsien" (25 miles from the vital rail junction Cheng-chow...
...unit, Bank of the Manhattan Co. Last week stockholders voted to change Bank of the Manhattan Co. to Bank of Manhattan Trust Co., and to increase the authorized capital from $22,250,000 to $40,000,000. Manhattan Co. will use its increased capital to enter the group banking field. Some believe, some hope that the laws against branch banking may be repealed, allowing holding companies to become great multi-branched banking systems...
Physicians of Peekskill, N. Y. (population 18,400) last week published a plan for foiling patients who try to wheedle free medical advice over the telephone. The 25 Peekskill doctors, practically all of whom are general practitioners including Hickson Field Hart, 66, city mayor, agreed to charge $1 for every phone consultation. Their other fees are representative of what medical charges are in communities of Peekskill's size: $2 for office consultations; $3 for office consultations after regular hours; $3 for residence or hospital visits in daytime, $4 after...
President John Martin Thomas roguishly assured his Rutgers undergraduates gathered at a "pep meeting" on the football field that he would not carry his gold-headed cane to church until they had beaten Lafayette. Backs Tellier and Wilcox kept the cane in Prexy's closet. Lafayette 20, Rutgers...