Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convict on a mere request to buy tickets, but must wait until they see the tickets change hands to place the speculator under arrest. For this reason, many of the professional men go free, but as they turn the ticket number over to the Athletic Association in return for money, the student selling them it almost always blacklisted...
...doctor. The profession considers that "no man now living in America has exerted greater influence upon the course of medical education in this country, and hence indirectly upon the course of medical thought and practice" than has Dr. Welch. Johns Hopkins University opened in 1876 on money bequeathed by Johns Hopkins (1794-1873), Quaker merchant of Baltimore. Hopkins left instructions for the development of first a hospital, then a medical school. The University's first president, Daniel Colt Oilman, went to Europe looking for a man who would be his first pathologist. European, savants told him to return...
...next fall and before Bermuda's 1930-31- tourist season begins Mr. Armstrong expects to have the Langley completed and anchored in place, ready to receive tourist planes and to entertain travelers on man's newest conquest of an element. As the operation of the Langley makes money, he will (and he has the money in provision to do so) construct eight similar seadromes to be strung 375 miles apart between the 35th and 40th parallels, north latitude, between Long Island and Plymouth. The 375 miles is an easy jump for any plane. Hence the project presages safe...
...because it had accepted an elephant as a first class passenger, but because a prospective passenger named Primo Carnera is proportioned like the giants of myth. Passenger Camera, an Italian pugilist, planned his trip to the U. S. as a business venture. He felt that he ought to make money in a country where the biggest man who ever held the heavyweight championship (Jess Willard) was only 6 ft. 6 in. high and weighed but 250 lb.; where a recent contender (Victorio Campolo), called sensationally big. weighed only 225 lb. and was only 6 ft. 6½ in. high. Fighter...
...trap-it was before the days of motor cars. It cost him six shillings, and being a Scotsman, he was a thrifty man. His religion compelled him to spend six shillings a week to drive from Lossiemouth to Elgin. But his desire to get good value for his money compelled him to commit the sin of drunkenness on Saturday, in order that he might have some reason to go and interview the Priest and get absolution next morning." Instant were the repercussions of this story. "Considering his position as Prime Minister of Great Britain," thundered Father Dowd of Ottawa...