Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...EARLY LIFE OF THOMAS HARDY 1840-1891 ?Florence Emily Hardy ? Macmillan...
Round 17. The Sun Life Insurance Co. of Montreal sent proxies for 44,000 shares to Col Stewart. Dartmouth College sent proxies for 2,360 shares to Mr. Rockefeller Jr. Julius Rosenwald, philanthropist and board-chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. came out for Mr. Rockefeller Jr. with the statement: "It was fitting for stockholders in any enterprise to see that the business is managed by officers whom they can trust." But Philanthropist Rosenwald's influence was moral, not financial. He owns no stock in Standard Oil of Indiana...
...balls and bats constitute no major portion of the Spalding company's present production. In 1892, A. G. Spalding & Bros, acquired Wright & Ditson and A. J. Reach, sporting goods companies, and put itself in an almost monopolistic position to profit from that trend in U. S. life which was to add the football stadium to collegiate architecture and golf .to the businessman's routine. Had the famed football player who wished to die for dear old Rutgers realized his ambition, a Spalding ball would have been found under his corpse. The first Davis Cup tennis matches (1900) were...
Surely Leonardo da Vinci had never painted a "dead" eye. Leonardo studied artillery, muscle fibres, ladies' lips, everything that quivered with life, mechanical or protoplasmic. He was the inspired archetype of the small boy who wants to know how things work. Sir Joseph Duveen could not believe that the painted "dead" eye was by Leonardo, nor, for that matter, that any part of the canvas had been colored by that amazing Florentine...
...more or less air-tight groups of those that like them and those that do not, and by now the latter have already turned to another article. For the benefit of the others, "Bugle" is one of the better dog stories. It deals with the adventures attendant upon the life of a hunting dog in the wilder regions of the West, and there is no lack of action in the incidents leading up to a stirring climax in the fight with an outlaw grizzly...