Word: holmes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manufacturers, the producers of vegetable and animal oils. With whale oil in direct competition and a lower tariff on it threatened, U. S. fine-oil men heard that sailing for the Antarctic on Norway's first seaplane-equipped whaling boats were Pilots Riisar-Larsen and Leutzowe Holm, seasoned polar flyers for the late Explorer Roald Amundsen. Experiment off Alaska has proven the feasibility of spotting whales from the air at long range, resulting in tremendous kills, big cargoes of whale oil, cheap prices for competition with other oils...
...summary: YALE HARVARD Saydah, Adams, Bouch, g. g., Ellison, Salmon Robey, Ottinger, pt. pt., Pickard Allaire, c.pt. c.pt. Markwett MacIntyre, ld. ld., Hartnett Vaden, 2d. 2d., Park Taggart, 3d. 3d., Mulliken, Porter Field, Easton, c. c., McQuaid, Harper, Stenberg, McGuire Dodge, Reinhardt, Sa. 3a. Hatch Johnson, Holm, 2a. 2a., Glenn, Stone Stevens, 1a. 1a., Dreier Huggins, o.h. o.h. Wallace Warner, Hoffman, i.h. i.h. Lane...
Professor Sargent died at his home. "Holm Lea," in Brookline yesterday, following a short illness of only two weeks, up to which time he had gone to the Arboretum every day. He had been in charge of the Arboretum since it was created in 1872 from a bequest of John Arnold to Harvard for that purpose. This was the most important of the many tasks connected with the progressing study of horticulture and forestry which he undertook. He conducted the first census of the forest resources of the United States, which led to the first federal action of importance...
...Holm-Smith, (P) defeated Dixon...
Ingraham and Pfaffmann, (H) defeated Howard and Holm-Smith...