Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Near Cresco, Iowa, last week, an automobile sped down a road, a tire blew out, the car turned over, flames burst forth. Out from beneath, unhurt, crawled U. S. Representative Gilbert Nelson Haugen, co-author with U. S. Senator Charles Linza McNary (Oregon) of "the best advertised piece of literature in modern times...
...high and Latin schools, including Roxbury Latin, within a radius of 20 miles of the State House. The winners of these prizes are Edward Francis Goggin of Dorchester, Boston Latin; John Wilson Anderson Jr. of West Roxbury, Roxbury Latin; Harrison Graham Pope of West Roxbury, Roxbury Latin; and Lester Nelson Stanley of Somerville, Somerville High...
...salary* of the President of the U. S. in advance for 466 years would cost slightly less than the sum† just spent by Great Britain to complete H. M. S. Nelson, most potent of post-War battleships which sailed complete, tested and primed last week, from the yards of her makers at New-castle-on-Tyne. Joyous sirens tooted all adown the Tyne, when the Nelson put to sea; and in British homes many a prideful comparison was made between the most powerful British, U. S., and Japanese battleships: The Nelson The Colorado The Mutsu (BRITAIN) (U.S.) (JAPAN...
Naval observers recalled that the Nelson and her sister ship the Rodney both comply with the Washington Treaty of 1922 by which capital ships were limited to 35,000 tons and guns to 16-inch bore. Everyone knows that the U. S., Britain and Japan abandoned by this treaty their programs for a type of battle-cruiser of some 43,000 tons. The U. S. and Japan scrapped or converted into aircraft carriers several partially completed boats of this type; and the British were so fortuntate as to be allowed to keep their 41,200-ton battle-cruiser...
...fact that this Salon had been done by Pierre Patou in three shades of soft grey Pyrenees marble, with strange, geometric, golden glass lighting by Lalique. On Sunday Mr. Herrick found that he might worship in a chapel, two stories high, done with emboine panels upon lemonwood by Nelson et Simon, who had placed upon the altar an ultra-modern crucifix in molded glass, blazing from concealed lamps...