Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After 50 years service as a University dormitory Beck Hall is to be sold. Yesterday morning the "For Sale" sign appeared under written by the name of Sleeper and Dunlop, real estate agents. It has always been in private hands and many times before has been on the point of being demolished. Once the alumni contributed to a fund to avoid its destruction...
...University Register has never been like the Freshman Red Book or the Senior Album, "a thing of beauty and a joy forever", with tooled leather covers, photographs of hundreds of fresh young faces, and a solace in boredom. There is little pleasure in looking up the numbers after the name of your friends to find how many knitted ties they are entitled...
...will go next year will be selected this April or May, and his name will be announced at the last dinner given by the club this year which will occur...
...Fisher of the Cadillac Motor Car Co. for General Motors. He is one of six brothers who, leaving their father's blacksmith shop in Norwalk, Ohio, to build motor car (Fisher) bodies, have won high positions in the General Motors organization.* General Motors officials pondered long over a name for this new model. They knew the price-$2,495 to $2,685. In fact, corporation engineers had built this new car to meet the price, and so to fill the price gap in General Motors' group. Chevrolet is the cheapest. Then by even increase of sales price come...
...cogitations and conferences came, by easy mental association, the name of René Robert Cavelier Sieur de LaSalle. The Cadillac, General Motors' pride, had been named for Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, who in the 18th Century established Detroit. He was King Louis XIV's Governor of Louisiana Territory, but the man who had explored and named that territory a few years before was the intrepid, swashbuckling Sieur de LaSalle. In his name were connotations of reverence, dash, finesse. Therefore the new General Motors car is called the LaSalle...