Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Telephone Laboratories and one of the inventors of television, nervously approached Professor Michelson and in a timid-seeming voice presented him with the Optical Society's Frederick Ives Medal. Dr. Ives gave the Society money for the biennial presentation of the medal in memory of his father, the late Frederick Eugene Ives, inventor of photoengraving...
Andrew Carnegie liked him, admired him. Lawyer Reed became president of the Bessemer & Lake Erie R. R., chairman of the board of Carnegie Steel Co. And when Carnegie dickered with the late, great J. P. Morgan to sink Carnegie Steel into the new U. S. Steel, it was Lawyer Reed who drew the mortgages which secured the bonds. Active to his death, in May 1927, Lawyer Reed saw Pittsburgh steel, Pittsburgh public utilities, grow into mighty units of U. S. industry...
Investors made yet another calculation. Even more significant than General Motors in the eyes of many a businessman are the reports of the mighty U. S. Steel Corp., now ending its first full year under committee management. As everyone knows, the mantle of the late, great Elbert H. Gary was rent into three parts. The first part fell on John Pierpont Morgan as Chairman of the Board; the second on Myron Charles Taylor as Chairman of the Finance Committee; the third on James Augustine Farrell as President. Last week, this triumvirate of tycoons announced quarterly earnings...
Other winners of the Pictorial Review Prize have been: in 1924, Mrs. Edward A. MacDowell, widow of the late Composer MacDowell, for her musicaliterary colony in Peterborough, N. H.; in 1925, Cora Wilson Stewart, for her Moonlight Schools, and her work discouraging illiteracy; in 1926, Sara Graham Mulhall, for her work decreasing the drug traffic; in 1927, Actress Eva Le Gallienne, for her organization of the Civic Repertory Theatre in New York City...
...Emily, which trot by every day. Miss Alice is going to marry Mr. Maurice Hunting; she meets him formally to accept his offer of a week ago, and he tells her his plans, tells her his hope of having two children, tells her of the legacy from his late Aunt Emily, his expectations of feeble old Uncle Percy. Overwhelmed by the thought of naming her two children Percy and Emily (the two little donkeys are trotting down there on the sand), Miss Alice bursts out laughing, and snatches the chance to run back to the shop and her spinsterhood...