Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eight years separated the births of Dwight Locke Wilbur's boys, Curtis Dwight and Ray Lyman?eight Iowa years during which the residents of little Boonesboro could foresee that Curtis Dwight Wilbur would grow to be a tall man with large hands, feet, ears and nose. Later, as younger Ray Lyman Wilbur grew up they could see that he, too, would be the "string bean" type. It also became apparent that, despite the years separating them, there was to be fraternal rivalry between the Wilbur boys for position in the world and prestige among...
...delivery boy for a country grocer in McGregor, Iowa, he saved enough money to set out for Yale University, where he was graduated in 1876. A classmate of his great & good friend, Arthur Twining Hadley, now Yale's President Emeritus, Bannard served Yale as a member of the Corporation and as chairman of the successful 1927 campaign to raise $20,000,000.? In 1909, he, no politician, ran for Mayor of New York City at the urgent request of his Republican friends; he finished behind William J. Gaynor and ahead of William Randolph Hearst. His business monument...
...plan for the selection of the teams, to make the dual Spring trip, was announced last night. This dual trip will extend as far west as Des Moines, Iowa, and as far south as Atlanta, Georgia. Two teams will leave at the same time, one for the western tour, the other for the southern trip. The teams will be chosen during the first week in March by a board of judges which will probably include Celian Ufford '19, instructor in public speaking at Harvard, and E. M. Rowe '27. Both are coaches of the Harvard Debating Council. The judges will...
Hardly had Mr. Smith turned away from the microphone when telegraphic notices of donations and congratulations began to arrive. Mrs. A. L. Love of Ottumwa, Iowa, wired: "My compliments-Matthew...
...Robert Wright Stewart, 62, is 6 ft., 1 in. tall, weighs 240 Ibs., and has four children. As a youngster he drove oxen on his father's farm near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Now he plays golf and goes to prize fights. He is one of the burliest and most outspoken men in the public...