Word: got
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nerve of Mr. J. T. Sanders, Sioux Falls Plumber. (TIME, March 25). We, all of us, are so at the mercy of his 11 Trovatore musicians that plumbers have become demigods shattering the peace of our bedrooms and laying waste our bankrolls. I know a God-fearing man who got drunk for a week after a little fairy of a plumber got into his home for one day. It took the God-fearing citizen a year to find his religion again. And Mr. Sanders runs true to his tribe; he's oh, so chesty. He wrote you: "The Catholic...
Chickasha, Okla., knew W. H. Draper as an eccentric homesteader with a mule called Jack. W. H. Draper was graduated from Harvard in 1896, got a job with the Calumet & Hecla Copper Co. Last week he died and willed everything he had- $2,000 and a 27-acre tract-to his good friend, Mule Jack...
...more than an application of the Golden Rule. There was a time when the mention of a Harvard team was the automatic signal for loud guffaws, and this entirely aside from the merit of the team in question. Whenever athletic Harvard became embroiled in a public controversy per opponent got the sympathy of the press and therefore the goodwill of the public. Now Harvard gets at least her fair share of public goodwill as far as her athletics are concerned, and since even Harvard alumni read the papers, this very important body is well disposed towards its Alma Mater, willing...
...gained his master's degree at Harvard in 1926, and is now pursuing work in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The David A. Wells Prize in Economics was won by John Van Sickle 21, for an essay entitled "Direct Taxation in Austria 1918-1923". Van Sickle got his bachelor's degree in 1927 at Cornell before coming to Harvard to study...
...across the Hudson from Jersey City to Manhattan. When other roads refused to cooperate, he went under instead of over the water and built the Hudson River tubes. Later he made an arrangement with the New York, New Haven & Hartford and built the Hell Gate Bridge, and still later got control of the Long Island Railroad and connected it to the Penn with tunnels under the East River...