Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Belgian national anthem, composed at the time of the revolution of 1830, which resulted in the separation of Belgium from the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the setting up of Leopold of Coburg as the founder of the present reigning house...
...Grandson of Sir John Sholto Douglas, eighth Marquess of Queensberry, founder of the Amateur Athletic Club (London) and formulator of the formal rules of fisticuffs. Sir John, too, had domestic difficulties: divorced by his first wife, his second marriage annulled. It was Sir John who publicly denounced Poet Oscar Wilde's homosexual practices; Sir John who arose, at Alfred Lord Tennyson's play, Promise of May, and denounced the "imaginary freethinker" portrayed as "an abominable caricature." Sir John died...
...controversy over the respective merits of liberal education and vocational training has broken out at New Haven, with the Yale News and Mr. Roger W. Babson, founder of the Babson Institute, new antagonists on an ancient battle ground. A somewhat heated editorial on Mr. Babson's educational ideas, characterizing the business man as "the biggest butter and egg man ever laughed at", aroused the wrath of Mr. Babson, who has retorted with a letter designed to prove--via the Socratic method--the superiority of an institution which develops the fundamentals of a successful business career to the average four year...
...many surgical inventions, the fees from some 15,000 surgical operations and 277,000 patients in the sanitarium, all his income except a bare living have gone to support his lifelong doctrine of "not doctoring, not surgery, but education." He supports the Race Betterment Foundation, of which he is founder and president; the Battle Creek College which he created out of his sanitarium dietetic and nursing classes...
President Frederick B. Patterson was more than willing to see the inactive interests in his family bought out. He had been negotiating with banks since the death (in 1922) of his father, John H. Patterson, the company's founder. So in stepped Clarence Dillon and succeeded where others had failed of accomplishment...