Word: foregoing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Petroleum Institute sessions there was talk of choosing for president a famed person outside the industry. General John Pershing, Charles Evans Hughes and President Coolidge were mentioned for the position. It was finally concluded, however, that in the present unsettled condition of the industry it would be better to forego the glory of a great name and select a man well acquainted with petroleum problems. So Edwin Benjamin Reeser, of Oklahoma, president of the Barnsdall Corp., was elected.* Mr. Reeser lives in Tulsa; whenever he visits his Manhattan offices he shakes the hand of every member of his staff...
...further limited by necessary but irrelevant attention to mechanical detail. The November hours belie their name with a premature October appearance that is particularly unwelcome to Seniors who have taken divisional a week or two before. And the student who is taking more than one of these courses must forego any hope of systematic digestion, to move in jumps in a depressing game of scholastic parchesi...
...feet of great scholars is one of the privileges of which the college man should be most jealous, following him who can lead revealingly into the mysteries of history and literature, of science, and to forego such opportunities because one is absorbed in some trival extraneous activity is simply to sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage. Folly is too mild a term for such ineptitude." President Augell of Yale...
...Coolidge, after some hesitation, let it be known that she would forego seeing John Coolidge graduated at Amherst College and go direct to Brule with the President...
...becomes gradually clear, however, that for the initial award after the renascence of an old tradition, the Union has done rightly to forego the selection of a single alumnus. The honor of being the most prominent Harvard graduate would be a doubtful one, even were it the intention of the Union to make choice upon that understanding. The question was sensibly beggared by the announcement that the dinner would be given merely to "a prominent Harvard graduate...