Word: known
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of trials held last night in Sever 36, six men were chosen for the finals of the annual declamation in French, known as the "Concours Oratoire pour la Medaille France-Amerique". Those selected were A. F. Archer '30. Joseph Barber '32, W. D. Carter '31. P. G. Livermore '32, M. P. Shaw '31, and F. M. Watkins...
...public could squeeze information out of the official communiques concerning the Hirst-Chadbourne-Swope meetings. The first report said that "no conclusion was arrived at at this morning's amicable meeting." Further meetings were delayed when Mr. Chadbourne was taken with a chill. It is known, however, that Sir Hugo has proposed a compromise arrangement by which U. S. shareholders can exercise their rights in the new issue, provided that they sell their new shares within ten weeks. This arrangement permits U. S. shareholders to benefit by the bonus character of the new stock, but makes no concession...
...little red schoolhouses have not as yet been established. Yet this corporation is not primarily in the hotel, the steamship, the agricultural or the pedagogic business. It is a railroad company, which operates more than 20,000 miles of line, thousands of miles more than any U. S. railroad.* Known on the Manhattan Stock Exchange by the symbol CD, it is more generally referred to as Canadian Pacific Railway...
...Platt. After the wedding the Cheneys drove around the town, inspecting their bailiwick. On their tour of inspection, reflective, antiquarian Cheneys may have mused on the year 1833, when the first Cheney came into contact with the first silkworm cocoon at South Manchester. Since then the town has known many Cheneys, many cocoons. Genealogically-minded Cheneys may have pondered, as they drove about, on the ramifications of relationship between the various families descended from the original seven Cheney brothers: Ralph, Ward, Frank, Rush, Charles, John, Seth...
...decades the Times was known as Raymond's paper. He died in 1869 and Mr. Jones carried it on to greater wealth and prestige. Dying in 1891, he left a splendid property to his children, with an injunction that they never sell out. Within a year they were preparing to sell. The editors, fearing the paper would fall into unworthy hands, rushed about and got a company organized which bought the property for $950,000. Then came the panic of 1893. The Times barely escaped consolidation and, in 1896, welcomed the help of Adolph Simon Ochs of Chattanooga. Tenn...