Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Awarded annually from a fund left by the late Sir Henry Bessemer (1813-98), inventor of the Bessemer blast furnace for converting pig iron into steel...
...late Amy Lowell, poetess, left an estate of $843,555 when she died on May 12, 1925. Last week it became known that she had willed $627,000 to Harvard University, of which her brother, A. Lawrence Lowell, is president...
...Fifth Ave., Manhattan, in a year. This fact became known last week at the courtroom in Somerville, N. J., where 107 Texans were squabbling for shares of $2,000,000 in the will of the late James Biddle Duke, brother of Benjamin. Thirty of the Duke millions were left to endow Duke University at Durham, N. C. (TIME...
...Felines frolicking in cellars or licking their paws upon doorsteps would suddenly become languid with fever and then, in a short space, perish. What the scurf was, if, indeed, it had a name, no one knew; they knew only that when it attacked a cat, there was no hope left for the beast's life; that it had already attacked and killed most of Heathsville cats; that a year ago, all the rabbits in the vicinity of Heathsville had likewise perished of a mysterious plague...
...starter, marking up the scores on the blackboard in front of his tent, came the news that at the ninth hole Sarazen was floundering. He had a 39, but Cruickshank had a 30. And when Cruickshank finished the last nine in 36 the starter himself left the blackboard and joined the people who were crowding to get a look at this sure winner while cameras clicked and Cruickshank posed with a driver on one arm and his wife on the other. Just about that time Farrell had finished the first nine. His score...