Word: graven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last resting places of Golfer Tom Morris and his son & namesake who between them won eight British Open titles between 1861 and 1873. There were more flowers for Allan Robertson, oldtime Scottish champion who died in 1859 secure in the knowledge that on his headstone would be graven the deathless words: FAR AND TRUE. This sentimental pilgrimage accomplished, Messrs. Dunlap, Goodman and Ouimet nipped back to the Royal & Ancient Club for some more practice. On that oldest and most formidable of courses, they and their six teammates were determined a week later to inter some live golfers, the British Walker...
...other field in the U. S., had been built by the Orleans Levee Board of which Col. Shushan, good friend of Senator Huey Long, is president. In gratitude for his loyalty Senator Long permitted the new field to be named for Col. Shushan. The name of Shushan was graven and imprinted no less than 3,200 times in stone, metal, tile and bronze...
Both Rao and Cleary, it soon developed, were animal lovers. Cleary had a police pup chained to his bed. The dog wore a harness on which was graven the name "Screw Hater" ("screw" = guard). The Irishman also had a cote of 100 pigeons in his dormitory. Rao maintained a flock of 200 more on top of the prison storage house. Also his criminal lackeys had built him a little fenced garden, with flowers, benches and a milch goat. Both Cleary and Rao had passes permitting them to roam the island at will...
...broken in a few days, officially resolved that the project "shall henceforth bear the official title and be referred to as the Hayden Planetarium." The Press printed sketches showing the projection dome rising like a vast moon behind a façade supported by six Grecian pillars and graven with the words HAYDEN PLANETARIUM...
...Company, a combine of the chemical manufacturers of the Land of the Almighty Dollar. At Philadelphia, Frederick W. Taylor died after being ill for nine days with an attack of pneumonia, on his fifty-ninth birthday, and two hours after winding up his watch. His fellow-countrymen had graven on his tombstone : 'Frederick W. Taylor, the Father of Scientific Management.' In France, at Neuve Chapelle, meanwhile, British cannon were spitting out hundreds of thousands of shells which, like the parts of a Ford car, had been manufactured on conveyors. Never, in fact, had the world been so closely...