Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Over four decades ago the brain of Professor Burt Green Wilder of Cornell conceived the idea that much could be learned about the functioning of the human brain if a collection of brains were established for comparative study. He announced the institution of the collection and invited contributions, especially from men of intellect. Naturally he willed his own brain to the collection. In 1925 he died and his thinking apparatus was carefully preserved in alcohol...
...acutely reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan. But not one of the 40,000 people who were watching him, not Vice President Curtis, who once rode horses, nor Mrs. Gann, who had a good seat, nor Maryland's Governor Ritchie, nor Will Rogers, whose pocket was picked of four mutuel tickets, thought of the Klan as they watched what Dr. Freeland was about. They were all interested in seeing what horse would win the famed Preakness horse-race. Dr. Freeland, who is a big fast three-year-old horse out of Toddle by Light Brigade, humped his shoulders...
Childs Cup. Four exquisitely-timed Columbia crews beat Princeton last week on brown-bottomed Lake Carnegie in the Childs Cup regatta. Pennsylvania rowed too, came in last in every race but the 150-lb. class, in which no Penn crew was entered. Columbia, having won every race this season, is, with possible exception of Cornell, the East's best bet for intercollegiate honors in June, when potent oarsmen from Washington and California will row on the Hudson...
...from Germany (in 1879) but with no banking prospects nor heiress to wed. A job got he in an architect's office, and many a book he thumbed. At 26 he was a practicing architect and main support of his family, sending through college four brothers and one sister. At office at eight, he often leaves at seven. During working hours, his coat is always off, his hair is always mussed. He is a member of six golf clubs. But he has never had a golf club in his hand...
...highways and hedgerows of the U. S., as well as the fashionable avenues, have been combed to find a bishop coadjutor for the Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania. Four were asked, four refused. Rector Henry Knox Sherrill of Boston's Trinity Church preferred to stay in Boston. Bishop Edward Makin Cross of Spokane, who was supposed to have relations in Philadelphia who would make that city attractive to him, preferred to stay in Spokane. Rector Russell Bowie of Grace Church, Manhattan, declined next, and then Dean William Scarlett of Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis. The situation was beginning to suggest...