Word: lever
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. William Hesketh Lever, Lord Leverhulme, 74, British soap man; in London, of pneumonia (see BUSINESS...
...have given the SRFD Acousticon a fair trial during the past six days and I am aware of distinct improvement in my hearing, not only when using it, but when I lay it aside in my home. I find that I hear best with the lever of the transmitter on the stop next but one to the 'soft' end of the scale...
...plan of classification of the awards is similar to that applied to the 1924 awards, under which a gold medal was given to the national Vigilance Committee of the Associated Advertising Clubs for distinguished services to advertising. Cash prizes were awarded to the J. Walter Thompson Company, to Lever Brothers Company, and to Barton, Durstine, and Osborn for the campaign of the General Motors Company and of R. H. Macy Company of New York...
...University entrants in the dash, A. H. Miller '27 and H. W. Burns '28, showed that Harvard will have power in the short event for some time to come. Miller placed third in the final to Hussey, a member of the Olympic team, and Lever, former intercollegiate champion...
Last week, Nurmi ran in Brooklyn, N. Y., was beaten, fixed a new world's record. The race was a 2,000-yard handicap, the occasion the annual indoor games of the Brooklyn College Club. When the pistol punched the air and Nurmi felt his lever-like legs beginning their incomparable trit-trot, he saw up the track three runners thrusting forward, all ahead of him, due to the one hundred yard handicaps. Through the scattered field he pumped, lap and lap; now there were only two, now only one runner ahead of him. That one was Gunnar Nilson...