Word: finley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knox its neighbor in Lombard College. its co-educational student body numbers 528 its faculty 38. Now non-denominational, College has an endowment well over two million , its library has the important Finley collection documents on the early French and English in the Mississippi valley...
...American Council of Learned Societies met in 1924 to discuss a U. S. counterpart of Sidney Lee's great British Dictionary of National Biography, there was not $500 in the treasury to pay the officers' traveling expenses. Approached by his scholarly editorial writer, Dr. John H. Finley, Publisher Ochs promised that the Times would put up $50,000 a year, enough to cover the spread between the cost of the Dictionary and its price ($12.50 a volume). Altogether the Times contributed...
...last day of August, mailed to the American Tract Society in Manhattan. There a committee representing six different denominations unanimously agreed that Dr. Ironside's treatise was the best of 29 submitted by U. S. ministers and professors in competition for a $1,000 prize offered by Mrs. Finley Johnson Shepard, great & meritorious daughter of the late & notorious Jay Gould...
...Sciences, the guests viewed models of historical inventions, demonstrations of current research, industrial films. They heard the voice of Thomas Alva Edison from an old phonograph record. First telegraph message, "What hath God wrought?", was again received from Baltimore on one of the two original instruments of Samuel Finley Breese Morse. In the evening, efficient young Patent Commissioner Conway Peyton Coe read a list of the twelve foremost dead inventors in U. S. history, as chosen by the ballots of a secret committee. The twelve: Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Alva Edison, Robert Fulton, Charles Goodyear (vulcanized rubber), Charles Martin Hall...
...bridge with loans of $77,600,000, represented President Roosevelt. Chief Engineer Charles Henry Purcell paid tribute to his staff. A steel-helmeted worker paid tribute to the daily average of 6,500 men employed in the construction. Then, wielding a dirty acetylene torch, California's Governor Frank Finley Merriam severed a gold link in a silver chain across the bridge entrance. Said he profoundly: "This bridge is not the product...