Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conductor. But it is John Joseph Kennedy who is to the New York Central what the commanders of flagships are to steamer lines. Of his apprenticeship as waterboy and brakeman he bears no mark. In the days of pin coupling, brakemen were seldom "set up" as conductors before they had managed to lose a finger or two. Conductor Kennedy's hands and memories are as smooth as a college professor's. The shield-shape perforation which he carefully makes in your ticket, in your presence', is done with the punch he used on his first passenger trip...
...When Mark Twain read these jingles in a newspaper, they took (he said) instant and entire possession of him. He could not read, he could not write, he could not eat or speak or sleep, save to the drumming, infernal accompaniment...
...Thayer, who had known McKinlock as a student at St. Mark's, paid tribute to the high character and dauntless courage which had always been distinguishing traits of his. Dean Greenough, the last speaker of the exercises, set forth briefly the value of the gift made by Mr. and Mrs. McKinlock to Harvard and in particular to the members of future Freshman classes, as well as the appropriate character of such a gift as a memorial to a former Harvard student who lost his life in the Great...
McKinlock quadrangle at which the speakers will be President Lowell, Dean C. N. Greenough '98, General R. E. Summerall, the general of the division in which George Alexander McKinlock Jr. '16 served on the western front in the World War, and Dr. William Greenough Thayer, Headmaster of St. Mark's School, where McKinlock took his preparatory course for Harvard...
...branches?one supplying Mr. Beebe with air, the other connecting with a delicate telephone receiver. Thus, Mr. Beebe utilized the column of air which kept him alive, to transmit the sound waves of his voice to an amanuensis at the sea's surface. The device was contrived by Dr. Mark Barr, English physicist, who accompanied the expedition...