Word: fields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spectacle of a college graduate launching against the professional champion of the wrestling world the flying tackle which he learned on a college football field, cheered on by a packed house of hardened followers of professional sport, the theory that no holder of a sheepskin diploma is a popular success in the professional sports arena seems to come a cropper...
Corry graduated from Harvard College with a magna in his field of English Literature. He was a member of the Harvard Glee Club, the Harvard instrumental Clubs, the Debating Union, and the Phillips Brooks House Association. He spent a year here during graduate work in geological engineering, and is now perfecting himself in that field in England...
Peculiar was the big duralumin plane delivered at the Newark, N. J., Field last week for testing. Its 46-ft. fuselage is 11 ft. wide, almost twice the ordinary width. Its nose encloses two water-cooled V-type, 662-h. p. engines. The fuselage has room in an 11 ft. by 17 ft. space for 20 passengers, and back of that, place for 1,000 Ibs. baggage. Wing spread is 89 ft., load capacity 7½ tons, cruising speed 150 m. p. h., high speed 175 m. p. h. It was secretly built for P. W. Chapman of Sky Lines...
...directors are Junius Spencer Morgan Jr. and Walter Sherman Gifford. Junius Spencer Morgan Jr. is named for his great-grandfather, the Junius Spencer Morgan who in 1854 left the Boston dry goods field to become a partner in the London bank of George Peabody & Co. It was this Junius Spencer Morgan (not John Pierpont Morgan I) who originated the famed remark that "Any one who sells a bear on the United States will go broke." The present Junius Spencer Morgan Jr. was graduated from Harvard in 1914, is a Morgan partner, a director of General Motors, grandson of the late...
...affiliation between the Bank of the Manhattan Co. and International Acceptance is particularly important in the field of international banking. The Bank of the Manhattan Co. has hitherto confined itself chiefly to New York City, where it has built up some 50 branches. International Acceptance, on the other hand, with its Warburg German connections, has specialized in international enterprises. The combination in effect puts the combined resources of the two banks into the international field...