Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appearance is more presentable than distinguished. Aged 52, he has a wife, six children. Ten years after publication, Buddenbrooks had gone through 50 editions. Its author remains, now as then, the follower of no master, the founder of no school, as important a writer as Germany possesses...
Undoubtedly Founder Russell and the other surviving founders of the Anti-Saloon League had good cause for congratulating one another. In their 1893 charter they had stated both the aim which the organization later realized and the policy which made its success possible. Said the Charter...
...Glenn Frank (University of Wisconsin president), Daniel Willard (Baltimore & Ohio R. R. president), James Branch Cabell (author of Jurgen, The Cream of the Jest, etc.), Capt. William H. Stay ton (Association Against the Prohibition Amendment founder and president), Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis (U. S. Supreme Court) and Dr. James McKeen Cattell (Editor of Science) were bracketed and equally recommended, as "six highly intelligent and industrious men . . . gentlemen," by Editor Henry Louis Mencken of the American Mercury, for President...
With 130,000 Rotarians and nearly as many Rotary Anns behind him, and 8,000 of them actually crying "On to Ostend" last week, what wonder that founder Paul Percy Harris writes...
...rails in the 37 years since the founding of the road. President Edward F. Carry of the Pullman Co. and Receiver Harry E, Byram of the St. Paul had ended a long company estrangement inherited from the late President Roswell Miller of the St. Paul and the late founder George M. Pullman of the sleeping car company. The two men had quarreled; their followers had maintained hostilities...