Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this simple ceremony the funeral itself was over. Then came relays of 120 pallbearers, great men thus greatly honored, who bore the coffin to the special funeral railway station, and placed it on the funeral car. . . . At dawn, the Emperor was entombed in a cement vault set into a hill overlooking Fujiyama, beloved and sacred mountain of Japan. Workmen at once began to heap up an immense tumulus over the vault; and since no human foot is allowed to tread above an Emperor, the workmen had to be "purified" by a peculiar rite. After this rite they become officially...
...financial perspicacity?Abraham Wolff. It was not long before Jacob Schiff dominated the partnership, and it was due largely to him that Kuhn, Loeb & Co. has made its close connections with European bankers. He, too, it was who fought with Edward Henry Harriman (1848-1909) against James Jerome Hill (1838-1916) and John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) for control of Northern Pacific in 1901. That created the great "corner" in Northern Pacific, whose shares rose to $1,000 each. But Jacob Schiff and J. P. Morgan, foreseeing panic, let the "shorts" settle for $150 a share...
...basketball contest with St. George's the Crimson first year quintet was forced to display its best. The game was an up-hill fight from the start and the Crimson chances for victory seemed nil until just before the final whistle, when the score stood...
...Scholastic Aptitude Test." This will be followed by talks on "The Rejected Candidate for Admission to College" by Henry Pennypacker '88, Chairman of the University's Committee on Admission, and President Benjamin T. Marshall of the Connecticut College for Women. Subsequent discussion will be opened by William C. Hill '01, of the Springfield Central High School, and William M. Irvine, of Mercersburg Academy...
...Stimulate the Appreciation and Practice of Good Music". The discussion will be led by Otis W. Caldwell, of the Lincoln School of New York City, Frank S. Hackett of the Riverdale Country Day School, New York, and Eugene R. Smith, of the Beaver Country Day School of Chestnut Hill...