Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...both members of last year's Freshman team, displayed great promise. As Batchelder and Ogden were on the University football squad throughout the fall, Coach Stubbs does not intend to use them against M. I.T. tomorrow night. He expects, however, that they will prove to be of value later on in the season
...Samuel Regar, treasurer of the Chandler-Cleveland Motors Corp. of Cleveland, last week announced that the Chandler-Cleveland Co. has been absorbed by the Hupp Motor Car Co. Stock of the merged companies has a market value of $130,000,000. The first Chandler car was built in 1915. Later Fred C. Chandler started the Cleveland Automobile Co., built the Cleveland, a car in a lower price-range, and soon consolidated the two companies into Chandler-Cleveland. No announcement was made concerning Hupp plans for the Chandler...
...hardware store on Lake Street, Chicago, had for a messenger boy 15-year-old Arthur Cutten. Soon Arthur Cutten, still a messenger boy, was working for a commission house. From messenger boy he became a clerk for A. S. White, onetime president of the Chicago Board of Trade. Later he was one of A. S. White's pit traders. Then he entered the grain market for himself, and during the World War is said to have made more money than any other individual operator. He once accumulated four million bushels of corn, bought at 80? a bushel or less...
...Years later Grant flattered himself that he too was a Wall Street potentate, only to learn in tragic finale that again he had been duped, used, ruined. Yet, under stress of terrific pain (cancer) his pathetic persistence in scribbling memoirs that would support his widow is the courageous characteristic that well overshadows faults and stupidities...
...Author. When Woodward was a small boy in South Carolina he read a book which proved the South had won the Civil War. Such was his surprise when he later learned otherwise that his curiosity, permanently caught, culminated in his study of Grant. In between time, however, he was advertizing man, banker, author of Bread and Circuses, George Washington, and admitted originator of the word "debunk." Patriots, private as well as professional, cavilled at his .debunking of George Washington, will carp at the same treatment of Grant. Of Washington, Author Woodward replied he had made no effort to "show...