Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newcomer to the ranks of the heavy crews, T. N. Perkins, Jr. '31, who set the beat for the champion American Henley lightweight eight at Philadelphia last Saturday, was pulling the stroke oar in the class eight yesterday but it is not known whether he will be given a chance with the University crews. R. L. Pearson '31, stroke of the class crew which raced on the Schuylkill on Saturday, was also in the stroke seat of the class crew shell during yesterday's practice...
...much as with hats, and many a famed head, including the heads of 23 U. S Presidents, has been protected and ornamented with Knox hats. The hatter, of course, takes a bird's-eye view of heads and in the Knox files are thousands of outlines (technically known as "conforms") of heads as they appear when looked straight down at. Generally speaking, there are two main types of outline-a long, narrow ellipse hardly wider at the centre than at the ends, and a short, pear-shaped figure with the wide part at the back. Long and narrow were...
...year, he was given a $250 bonus and a $10 a week job. Still not quite 20 years old, Charles Knox opened the first Knox shop at 110 Fulton St. So small was his store that only one customer at a time could be accommodated. Thus the shop became known as the Hole in the Wall, a title which many a small retailer has since appropriated. But many a hat came out of the hole and Hatter Knox soon moved to larger quarters. Among early Knox customers were Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley, James Gordon Bennet, Thurlow Weed, Henry Clay, Abraham...
...rapidly rising Dunlap hat. Whether because Robert Dunlap, liberal, kindly, used frequently to suspend production in Dunlap shops while he bought beer for the men and ice cream for the women, or because of a secret process by which Hatter Dunlap succeeded in turning out the blackest derbies ever known, the Dunlap hat eventually outsold the Knox in Manhattan. For many a year small hat-makers held up their spring lines until they could see and imitate the Dunlap derby and the Knox felt. As for Knox-Dunlap competition, both the Knox and the Dunlap businesses declined with...
...compete for the paltry sum of a few dollars which could otherwise be unable to play each other without an outlay of hundreds of dollars. Of course this is only in the nature of an experiment, but the interest lies in the fact that, as far as is known, no such contest has ever been staged...