Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate: ¶ Passed a bill appropriating $1,500,000 to, aid in the eradication of the foot and mouth disease in California (previously passed by the House). ¶ Adopted a joint resolution changing the name of Mount Ranier (Wash.) to Mount Tacoma...
...67th annual meeting of the American Chemical Society convened in Washington under the Presidency of Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland, inventor of bakelite. R. S. McBride, President of the Washington section, welcomed the convention, and it was entertained by cinemas, teas, receptions, dances, sight-seeings, excursions to Government laboratories, to Mount Vernon, to Edgewood Arsenal. President Coolidge received the chemists...
...Algiers on a steep mount overhanging the city was placed, centuries ago, an image of Isis done in the blackest of black basalt. Early in the Christian Era, the image was accepted by the African Christians as an image of the Blessed Virgin...
...Senator from California, campaigning near Mount Clemens, approached a railroad crossing in an automobile, with associates. A train approached, the safety gates sank across the way. The driver of the automobile applied the brakes, the car skidded, smashed through the gates. The engineer put on the air brake. As the train ground to a stop the car slid to within a few feet of the engine...
...editorial board consists of : Joseph Cullen Ayer, of the Episcopal Divinity School, Philadelphia; Benjamin W. Bacon, of the Yale Divinity School, New Haven; William H. P. Hatch, of the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge; Charles Michael Jacobs, of the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Mount Airy, Pa.; Frederick William Loetscher, of Princeton Theological Seminary; William Walker Rockwell, of Union Theological Seminary, New York; and Henry Herman Meyer, of the International Sunday School Association and Lesson Committee. Judge Rogers, now aged 70, was admitted to the Bar in 1877. He served as chairman of the World's Congress on Jurisprudence and Law Reform...