Word: openness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least $100,000,000. Young Barney drifted out to South Africa in the '70s when individual diggers spaded the surface soil and "panned" it for diamonds, each man with his own teetering sieve. Since "diamond earth" occurs in huge cones pointing downward, the diggers soon found their open pits were becoming death traps as "mud rushes" (slides) caved in upon them from the perimeter. Subsoil mining followed as a matter of course, but subsoil mining is expensive. It was in forming the great mining syndicates which bought out the open pit "little fellows" and sunk deep mines that such...
...Being a church-builder he was not one to whom newsgatherers would soon run for comments on a dispute in commercial architecture. Yet it was he who years ago wrote: "A walk up Fifth Avenue in New York, from Madison Square to the Park, with one's eyes open . . . leaves an indelible impression of chaos that is certainly without form, if it is not wholly void. Here one may see in a scant two miles (scant, but how replete with experiences!) treasure-trove of all peoples and all generations: Roman temples and Parisian shops; Gothic of sorts...
Died. William Henry Porter, 65, "systematizing genius" of J. P. Morgan. & Co. and the director of its open market operations; in Brooklyn, N. Y., of heart disease, while walking with his wife. At 25 he was the youngest cashier in a major U. S. bank (Chase National). It was he who stimulated the trade acceptance, or bill, market in the U. S., whereby a merchant with time paper on his hands could easily discount it at a bank. He was taken into Morgan partnership in 1911, simultaneously with Thomas William Lamont...
...half afraid lest this be his victim's ghost, David kneels, chafes the seeming corpse's slender, blue-veined wrists, and quite disregarding the tempest, whispers long, soulful entreaties that the visitor return to life. At length the angel's eyes, of divinest cerulean blue, open, and in accents of which the elegance is matched only by their incongruousness in the midst of a hurricane, a cultivated voice expresses heartfelt appreciation for timely succor under discommoding circumstances...
...order to like care of the unusual demand for floor space, the Hemenway Gymnasium will be open for practice seasons in the evening. A police starting what teams will practice, the time and place will be published dally in the CRIMSON...