Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disciple of William Morris and deplorer of the vanishing of skilled craftsmen in wood, stone, embroidery, leather, stained glass-by telling them that he hopes some day to write a history of U. S. architecture which in great part would be the biography of his friend, Ernest Robert Graham, mightiest builder of all time in the U. S., commander of regiments of shovelers, armies of masons, riveters, roofers, glaziers, painters and plumbers...
Furious, Lord Lloyd protested vainly for an hour, finally was allowed to use the telephone. Calling the British Embassy he gave way to his feelings. Scandalized, the British Ambassador, Sir Ronald William Graham, sped in person to the police station, identified Lord Lloyd, swore that he was no potential assassin, and secured his release by a reluctant and still auspicious Fascist Police Captain. Foreigners in Italy less potent than...
...American Society of Mechanical Engineers, annually singles out one of its members for highest honors and presents him with a medal established in 1902 in memory of John Fritz, iron and steel pioneer. It has given the Fritz medal to Lord Kelvin (transatlantic cables), George Westinghouse (air brakes), Alexander Graham Bell (telephones). Last week it designated a slender little man from whose brain have sprung electric arc lights, electric carriages, gyroscopes, super-search-lights, compound Diesel engines. It named Elmer Ambrose Sperry and specifically recognized his "development of the gyrocompass and the application of the gyroscope to the stabilization...
...Smith Halls Dormitory Committee was named yesterday by the proctors of the several halls, as follows: James Smith: Bernard Barnes, J. M. Davis, J. R. Graham, W. E. Hutton 2nd; Persis Smith; O. S. Chute D. M. Gierasch, R. K. Leonard, H. T. Wenner; George Smith; B. D. Hanighen, James Roosevelt, J. C. Weir, R. D. Williams...
Guatds and tackles: Barrett, Campbell, Dickey, Fordyce, Graham, Hitch, Mac Arthur, Mason, Morins, Petraced, Stewart, Storey, Shaw, Ticknor and Water...