Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morgan, put $25,000,000 of Government funds into Manhattan banks, halted the Panic. They remembered too the Northern Pacific crash of 1901. when, after Northern Pacific stock had gone overnight from $150 to $1,000 a share, the House of Morgan, representing the late great James J. Hill and the House of Kuhn, Loeb, representing the late great Edward H. Harriman, compromised at $150 a share, saved from ruin many a short. Then there was the U. S.-England war scare of 1895 when, with money at 80%, J. P. Morgan offered money at 6%, averted a threatened crash...
...women, capped, gowned, uniformed. They had to dig in their heels, so as to proceed with the gravity the occasion demanded, and tortuously descended from Brown's campus to the First Baptist Meeting House ("built for public worship and to hold commencements in") midway down College Hill. This was the formal part of Dr. Barbour's induction...
...Eliot's classmate, Professor Adams Sherman Hill, who made the remark (attributed to another man) that the President had a sense of humor, but you 'couldn't count on it.' That he had it is made obvious by what I have already told. When it showed itself in words, his instinct for the close-fitting word was strikingly effective. Of a mean-looking poster inviting new students to the hospitality of a reception, he said, 'It has a very bleak appearance.' Of the magenta handkerchiefs bought for the crew in which he rowed, he said that, though they were...
...Delta High Marsters, A. K. '30 Back 21 182 5.9 Exeter McCall, W. T. '32 Back 20 170 5.8 Muskegon High McDonough, B. J. '30 Back 22 167 5.7 Lake Forest McInnes, M. G. '30 End 24 182 5.9 Dean Modarelli, W. H. '32 Tackle 20 186 6.2 Union Hill Morton, W. H. '32 Back 20 168 5.11 New Rochelle Nims, C. S. '31 Guard 20 190 6.1 Greenfield High O'Connor, E. J. '31 End 22 186 5.11 Hebron Pettingill, G. '32 Guard 19 179 5.9 Pekin School Phinney, W. L. '31 Guard 20 171 5.7 Manchester High Pochler...
...Milton Davis, F. S. '30 Tackle 21 185 6.1 Loomis Devens, C. '32 Back 19 180 6.1 Groton Douglas, J. G., Jr. '30 End 21 185 6.1 St. George's Faxon, R. M. '32 Tackle 20 185 6.3 Milton Fullam, P. A. '32 Back 22 165 5.9 Chestnut Hill Acad. Gildea, J. H. '31 Center 20 183 6.0 Boston Latin Gilligan, F. J. '32 Back 22 185 5.11 Exeter Gilligan, T. W. '31 Back 20 182 6.0 Newton High Ginman, W. K. '32 Guard 20 178 5.11 Muskegon High Gleason, R. F. '32 Back 21 170 5.11 Worcester Greeley...