Word: josiah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Josiah Van Kirk Thompson, 79, retired Pennsylvania coal operator and banker; after long illness; in the 52-room house on the weed-choked ruin of his estate, "Oak Hill," in Uniontown, Pa. Inheriting $100,000 from his father, he gave it to Washington & Jefferson College which had graduated him, started from scratch. Uncannily able to "smell" coal, he built up a $70,000,000 empire, owned more than 140,000 acres of coal land. The War caught him overextended, his bank strained by a transcontinental railroad project. In 1930, flat broke, he was sued by his niece, the Princess...
...September Graduates Magazine which will go on sale either today or tomorrow. He has established, for the first time, the approximate dates at which seals of various designs were officially used. The motto, "Veritas," he discovered, was not actually used until 1885 except for a brief period under Josiah Quincy although it was officially recommended at an overseers' meeting in 1643. At a meeting of the Harvard Club in New York in 1878 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1816, presented a sonnet ridiculing the omission of "truth" on the Seal, in so doing unintentionally causing a general protest which resulted...
...presented to President Conant in the Inauguration ceremony along with the present official one, was probably made in London. In 1693 John Coney, the famous Colonial silversmith, made another, remarkable for its simplicity and dignity, which was used until 1812. At this time a simple reproduction was made. Josiah Quincy, President of the College from 1836 to 1846, and historian of the bicentennial in 1836 next essayed a most elaborate design, but his successor restored the older design. No change was then made until 1885 produced the Appleton design, which remains to the present...
...positive acceleration." Only in its diversion to war is this increasing knowledge destructive, he went on. It gives men leisure, and men can be educated to use their leisure pleasantly. Sir Frederick believes that British Broadcasting Corp., a government licensed monopoly, will take charge of such education. Sir Josiah Stamp, economist, was altogether pessimistic on the subject. Science, argued he, should be curbed. It is producing new goods which destroy the demand for old. That process tends to wipe out old industries, causes economic waste. There should be a referee system to control the exploitation of new "direct discoveries...
...Francisco, Conductor Richard Lert (Playwright Vicki Baum's husband) began concerts in the picturesque Woodland Theatre last week. In Cincinnati's Zoo where Goliath, Barnum & Bailey's 10.000-lb. sea lion recently visited, Lohengrin started eight weeks of opera on money largely raised by Mrs. John Josiah Emery, Artist Charles Dana Gibson's daughter. Only disturbance the opening week was made by a peahen named Madame Blanche who emitted a shrill Nya-a-a-a each time Soprano Hizi Koyke as Madame Butterfly struck a high note. In New York's Central Park rollerskaters kept...