Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those winning the Harvard Club Scholarship are: J. R. Graham 30 West Roxbury, who prepared at the Roxbury Latin School; A. R. Maynard '30 of South Sudbury, Weston High School: F. E. Nugent '30, Allston, who was graduated last spring from Brighton High; and R. S. Smethurst '30, who comes from Marblehead and prepared for college at the local high school...
...year Charles Albert Coffin turned from his profitable manufacturing of shoes at Lynn, Mass., to the manufacturing of electrical equipment, electricity was in little practical use. Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) had shown in 1844 that it could be used for telegraphy. In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) applied it to telephony. Charles Francis Brush (1849-) invented the Brush electric arc light in 1878. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-) shortly was to develop a clanking generator and the incandescent lamp, and Elihu Thomson (1853-) his 500 and more industrial applications...
Governor Pinchot had appointed two Deputy Attorneys General, one William B. Wright at $5,000 and one Louis E. Graham at $6,000, whose salaries came out of the funds handled by the bureau chiefs...
Next two sleuths had been engaged, "a Mr. Petroz and a Mr. Peters," to go out and work up evidence, which they then handed over to Deputies Graham and Wright for prosecution...
...House is asked to do," said Representative Graham, "and all it is bound to do is to say in effect to Judge English: 'Here are things which smirch your ermine. Stand up, sir, in the Senate, face these accusations and if you are innocent, God send a deliverance...