Word: levies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...housepainter, of Creswell, Ore. It had been Mr. Scott who, when the University's registration book was first opened in 1876, had had his name written on the topmost line. The second and third students to register were his sister Mathilda, his brother "Ron." His grandfather, Capt. Levi Scott was the university's first janitor. His father, William J. J. Scott, it was who loaned $2,000 to keep the sheriff from foreclosing a contractor's lien on the institution's one and only building, Deady Hall...
...first incumbent of the Alford Professorship was Levi Frisbie '02. He was followed by Levi Hedge '92, James Walker '11, Francis Bowen '33, G. H. Palmer '64, Josiah Royce '11 and W. E. Horking...
Forty years ago, in Middletown, N. Y., a farmer named Lewis C. Andrews found a turtle in a field and whiled away a pleasant hour cutting his initials and the date "1886" in the turtle's mottled back. Last week a neighbor, Levi Sinsabaugh, found the turtle in a field, the letters, the date, still clear in his back. Farmer Andrews placed the reptile under a wicker chair, called neighbors in to witness his achievement...
...world's record. Previous record: John Levi of Haskell Indians to George Kipp, 62 yards...
Among the many Conservative candidates who hope to sweep into Canada's Parliament under banner of Mr. Meighen, is Professor .William Levi Carlyle. An agricultural scientist, he is trying to persuade the Western Progressives of Alberta to send at least one Conservative to Ottawa. His chances of succeeding are reported to be excellent because of the somewhat irrelevant fact that he is manager of the ranch of Royal Highness, Edward of Wales...