Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the fire swept the Steel Car plant, twisting the rails of its three parallel tracks, gutting the beautiful "City of St. Joseph," melting its window panes to puddles but leaving its huge cylindrical body an eloquent testimonial to the man who first tried with all his might to realize the life-saving possibilities of steel cars, that man still fought on, though in failing health; but he had hardly given up the hope of rebuilding his plant before a little French doctor, who had attended his wife in New England, recommended a diet of thoroughly cooked whole wheat...
...three Republican leaders? Longworth, Tilson, Snell?had finally been convinced by a conscientious Connecticut veteran, 72-year-old E. Hart Fenn, that honesty demanded passage of the Fenn Bill. Prudence also demanded it since, looked at nationally, reapportionment would slightly favor Republicans. But since Indiana might lose two seats by reapportionment. Congressman Vestal refused to exercise his whip on behalf of the Fenn Bill?although, in the end, he thought it prudent to vote for it himself. There were, of course, other opponents for the same reason?Iowa's Dickinson who would have liked to be U. S. Vice President...
Assuming that the businessman control idea actually goes into operation, whom might Chicagoans select as leader of the business group? Young as Chicago is, many of its great pioneer families have already passed into their third generations. Among the Swifts, the Armours, the McCormicks. the Potter Palmers, perhaps the most available candidate is Harold Higgins Swift (president of the board of the University of Chicago, director of Chicago's United Charities). Potent, indeed, are Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson, heads of the Chicago Tribune. But Mr. McCormick would hardly leave the Tribune to act in an advisory capacity...
...Harvard Fund was established three years ago to give the University an unrestricted source of income, to be used for any purposes the Corporation might see fit. The only exception is that men who are affiliated with a graduate school only can specify that their contribution be credited to that particular school...
Then, when a doctor wants to find out information which might help to locate the cause of a disease, he takes a certain number of the cards and runs them through the machine, arranging the apparatus to separate out the facts that-he desires...