Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, Conn., Nov. 19--Undergraduates of three of America's oldest and most famous universities are suspected in the theft during the Yale-Princeton game of the last remaining section of Yale's traditional fence, which for ever fifty years has served as a background for the official pictures of undergraduate Eli notables...
Frankfort, Ky., where the oldest U. S. cell block (1798) is still in use. Several Southern prisons use the disciplinary strap, but not Kentucky. Said the late Warden John Chilton, dean of U. S. wardens, who died six months ago: "If I used a strap on those hillbillies they would lay for me till their dying day. I'm a hillbilly myself, so I know...
...will not soon forget him. And if his journalistic potency has not been enough, Mr. Hearst has five sons to keep his tracks fresh long after he is gone. The eldest son, plump 25-year-old George, is well along the way as Publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, oldest of Hearst newspapers, after experience as Editor of the New York Mirror (since sold by Hearst) and President of the New York American. The second son, his father's namesake, is only 22 but already his thin young face wears deep marks of experience and looks like his sire...
Bigelow-Sanford. Inventor of the power loom was Erastus B. Bigelow who became head of what is now the Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Co. (Massachusetts), oldest U. S. carpet makers. Last week the oldest carpet makers absorbed the oldest rug manufacturers, Stephen Sanford & Sons (New York) founded...
...62nd annual report, out last week, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (oldest of its kind in the U. S.) described its good works, made bows for donations, mourned the recent deaths of members, told of new projects...