Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ogden Phipps '31, captain of the Harvard University squash team, has accepted an invitation to play in the second annual squash racquets tournament of the Rockaway Hunting Club for the Gold Racquet, at Cedarhurst, Long Island...
...last is a generalized scene of modern industry- liners in a harbor, airplanes in the air, tall buildings rearing in the background, a sweating structural steel crew. Each unit is related to the whole by composition and color. There are no pretty girls, no idealization, no gold leaf...
...least the U. S., the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness met at St. Louis last week. William Howard Taft is honorary president of the Society; William Fellowes Morgan, Manhattan cold storage tycoon, president; Lewis Herbert Carris, managing director. Most distinguished guest was Dr. Ernest Fuchs, 79, gold-spectacled professor-emeritus of ophthalmology at the University of Vienna, "dean" of the profession...
...City, Mexico & Orient Railroad, purchased last year by Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé. Charges against Receiver Kemper were that in 1924 when stockholders thought the situation hopeless, he learned of oil discoveries along the line, of improved operating conditions, of terms in the Santa Fé deal that would make Orient gold convertible notes worth more than face value. Then, according to charges, he bought more than $1,000,000 of these notes at from 10˘ to 25˘ on a dollar, within a few months sold them with a profit of $1,875 on each...
...Oviedo went to Italy; 17 years later he was appointed supervisor of gold smeltings at San Domingo; and in 1523, back in Spain, he was appointed historiographer of the Indies...