Word: livingston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the renowned were: Sir Robert Robertson, chief Government chemist of Great Britain; Livingston Farrand, President of Cornell; Sir Max Muspratt, onetime Lord Mayor of Liverpool, foremost British indus- trial engineer; Dr. J. S. McHargue, head of the Kentucky Agricultural Station; T. A. Boyd of the General Motors Corporation; Professor H. Steenbock, chemical research head of the University of Wisconsin; Professor E. C. C. Baly, famed savant of the University of Liverpool. In the chair was Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland, President of the Society, a man who invents. He has discovered processes for the separation of copper and cadmium...
...Berengaria (Cunard)?R. Livingston Beeckman, onetime Governor of Rhode Island; L. Heilbroner, of Weber & Heilbroner (haberdashery) ; Gennaro Papi, conductor of the Metropolitan Opera; Oscar S. Straus, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Turkey...
...John Livingston Lowes A.M. '05, Professor of English in the University since 1918, and at present chairman of the English Department, has been appointed Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, to succeed Professor Charles Homer Haskins A.M. '08, recently resigned, according to an announcement by University authorities...
...Maynadier '89, Charles Burton Gulick '90, Matthew Luee '91, Edward Waldo Forbes '95, John Lewis Bremer '96, George Henry Chase '96, John Homans '99, Paul Jeseph Sachs '00, Henry Aaron Yeomans '00, Henry Lyman '01, Francis Wells Hunnewell '02, Roger Irving Lee '02, Henry Asbury Christian, G. '03, John Livingston Lowes, G. '03, Francis Wield Peabody '03, Chandler Rathfon Post '04, Austin Wakeman Scott, L. '09, James Waterhouse Angell '18, Robert Earle Bacon, G. '18, David Mason Little, Jr. '18, Delmar Leighton '19, and Donald Kirk David...
With the opening up of Africa by Stanley and Livingston, there came a sudden increase in foreign trade, particularly in wild beasts. Two enterprising young men, Messrs. Barnum and Balley engaged a stock company of particularly well-dispositioned wild animals, and took to the road. Later out of business courtesy or for advertising purposes. Barnum donated Jumbo to Tufts and the natural history course became overcrowded. By such means were lands terrestrial familiarized; going to Africa was thought no more of than going to get a milk-shake. Then within a few decades the South and North Poles were "exposed...