Word: greeley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smokers as nonsmokers. For instance, among the former: Washington, Gambetta, Bismarck, Mazzini, Kitchener, Hobbes, Spurgeon, Huxley, Keats, Browning, Kingsley, Wordsworth, Lamb, Carlyle, Emerson, Dickens, Tennyson, Meredith, Stevenson, Howells, et cetera ad infinitum, not to mention the well-known excesses of Grant and Mark Twain. On the other hand: Lincoln, Greeley, Wilson, Roosevelt, Wellington, Balzac, Goethe, Tolstoi, Ruskin, Haeckel, Bacon, Whittier, etc. Obviously, tobacco can have had no beneficial effect other than from habit on the great deeds of the world, for the foundations of civilization were laid, and Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Caesar, Dante, and many more lived and wrought before...
...people being contained in the obituary column. "When Joseph Pulitzer founded The New York World he made of that daily a people's newspaper . . . The New York World today only carries the principles of Joseph Pulitzer at the head of the editorial column . . . "The voice of Greeley, which thundered through the columns of the Tribune (New York), has been silenced a good many years . . .today the Tribune is devoted to the cause of big business."-Mayor Hylan of New York, explaining to members, of the National Editorial Association why certain newspapers attack...
...years' Arctic voyage. He plans to coast along the Greenland shore, studying terrestrial magnetism, and will winter at Cape Sabine, returning in the fall of 1924. Under the auspices of the National Geographic Society, he will erect a bronze tablet on the site of the old Greeley expedition camp, where 18 men perished...
High Jump.--Abbott, Gerould, Greeley, Hyatt, Morse, Phillips...
...contestants in that event a large advantage, the smallest handicap being that of Murphy of the University squad, who has been allotted 10 inches. In the high jump Brown of Dartmouth and Murphy of Newark will be the scratch competitors, with the three lowest handicapped Crimson entrants being Morse, Greeley, an Gerould, cach of whom has an advantage of 5 inches. Harwood and West of the B. A. A., in the absence of Davis, will be the only scratch men in the pole vault, D. D. Reidy coming after then with a four-inch handicap...