Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presided over the annual Founders' Day dinner. Said he: "Our dreams have come true. We've shown that we people here have determined to get over the small physical handicaps which after all don't amount to a hill of beans...
...worked his way through his father's college (Moores Hill) by corresponding for the Indianapolis News, of which another Indianan, Meredith Nicholson, was editor. There, after college, he got his first regular job. In 1896 he joined the Scripps Cincinnati Post as a cub police reporter. Three years later he was managing editor. Excepting a five-year interlude in Indianapolis, Editor Martin's career for the next 25 years was in the old Scripps and young Scripps-Howard organizations. He edited the Cleveland Press, became editorial chief of all Scripps-papers in Ohio, headed Scripps-Howard...
...Eliot was beginning another year of teaching at M.I.T. in the autumn of 1868, the presidency of the University was vacated by the resignation of President Hill. The nomination of Hill's successor lay with six gentlemen who were the remaining members of the corporation, but before they could act it was necessary for the Overseers to pass a vote consenting that the Corporation proceed to the election of a new president. After the Corporation should have chosen some one in particular, the University statutes would again leave the matter to the Board of Overseers, requiring from it a vote...
Sidney S. Alexander of Forrest Hill, John D. Cook of Wilkinsburg, Pearson C. Cummin, Jr. of Devon, Harold B. Lang of AspinWall, Donald C. Logan of Turtle Creek, Harvey W. Miller of Wayne, William F. Read, 3rd, of Villa Nova, Irvin G. Shaffer of Reading, Grant E. Wesner of Reading...
George A. Hill of Seaford, Delaware, Robert Day of District of Columbia, James E. King of Leesburg, Florida, David H. Gordon, Jr. of Atlanta, Georgia, Audley H. Shoemaker of Augusta, Georgia, Thomas G. Cutis of Minneapoles, Minnesota, August G. Curtis of Minneapolis, Minnesota, August C. Helmholzh, 2nd. of Rochester, Minnesota, Theodore Smith of Kansas City, Missouri, George F. Tittmann of St. Louis, Missouri, Egbert W. Fischer of Butte, Montana, Paul J. Allen of East Barington, New Hampshire, Douglas W. Overton of Concord, New Hampshire, Ramon N. Svoboda of Prague, Oklahoma, Richard M. Ballou of Providence, Rhode Island, John B. Hickam...