Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...awful to behold, last week, was the indignation of M. Aristotle Tsiflakos, Editor of the Royalist news organ Apogevmotini ("Afternoon News"), who had believed, until last month, with other foes of Venizelos that the founder of the present Greek Republic was definitely retired and pass...
Retired. Andrew Fleming West, 75, dean of the Graduate School since 1901 and founder (1913) of the Graduate College of Princeton University. He is succeeded by Col. Augustus Trowbridge, physicist, onetime member of staff of General John Joseph Pershing...
...business of the Manhattan Putnams is publishing. Major George Haven Putnam, 84-year-old son of the founder of the business, last week demonstrated that he does not lag behind his able nephew, George Palmer Putnam, or his grandnephew, David Binney Putnam, in exercising the sinew of publishing, publicity. When newsgatherers interviewed Major Putnam upon his return from a visit to England, he was ready for them with alarming news. He had never, he said, formally become a U. S. citizen. He was in the habit of voting in England as well as in the U. S. Further...
...regime has been successful, partly because he blended efficiency with tradition: it would have been dangerous to apply rigid card-index methods to the University of Virginia, where Southern bloods are wont to loll on the lawn and contemplate the architectural works of Founder Thomas Jefferson...
Jane Addams, Hull House founder LL. D. Frederick A. Stock, director of Chicago Symphony Orchestra Mus. D. Wittenburg College (Springfield, Ohio...