Word: fisk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appearing, as it did, on the topmost pinnacle of the new Memorial Chapel, without explanation of its form, the gold-leaf plated wind-vane has caused much inquiry, some people even questioning whether it was a fisk's tail surmounted by a harp. It was learned late last night that the vane is in the shape of a penant flying in the wind, and is copied from a medieval lance. The cap topping the mast is made up of two Greek crosses...
Scion of "an interminable line" of not interminable Georgia preachers and physicians, Poet Dillon, since he entered the University of Chicago in 1923, has been a chronic prizewinner. At the University he won the John Billings Fisk Prize for the best poetry written by a student. Poetry, The Magazine of Verse, gave him its Young Poet's Prize, invited him to become associate editor. Boy in the Wind was the first selection of the Poetry Book Club, won the Chicago Foundation for Literature Prize. Among more personal prizes he counts the friendship of Edna St. Vincent Millay...
...sake of accuracy, I want to suggest that President Roosevelt was attending a banquet of the Vermont Fish & Game Club at the home of ex-Lieut. Governor Nelson W. Fisk at Isle La Motte, Vt. when this news reached him. He arrived in Vermont September...
...early utility days, Mr. Insull likes best to recall the year 1903 when he installed in Chicago Edison's Fisk Street Station a generator of the steam turbine type much bigger than any previously used. On the day of the opening the engineer suggested that Mr. Insull leave the room...
...Levy did his work on Fisk for Richard H. Swartwout, chairman of the new board, who once described himself as a "selector of presidents." During his investment banking days he helped reorganize many a defunct or tottering enterprise: Union Bag & Paper Corp., American-La France Fire Engine Co., Norfolk Southern Railroad, Intertype Corp., Dictaphone Corp., Ansco Photo-products, Inc. Twice he and his friends had working control of Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, sold out both times at a profit. Backer Swartwout said Fisk's plans for a new selling campaign would not be ready for several months...