Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five weeks ago (TIME, July 11) Charles Augustus Lindbergh wished to pay an informal call on Daytonian Orville Wright, pioneer aviator. This wish he satisfied by driving a motor car through back streets of Dayton, by visiting with Orville Wright, by driving away through back streets of Dayton...
...apprenticeship. So in his annual address to the Society he permitted himself to touch upon part of the "routine business" of his own career. This part was not his feat of discovering Stevens Pass through the Cascade Mountains for the Great Northern R. R., or any part of his pioneer work for the Canadian Pacific R. R., or any of his experiences as chief of the War-time board to improve trans-Siberian travel. His talk was about the Panama Canal, of which President Taft named him the "father" for his. services as its presiding genius from...
...Sixty-six cents economy, or the recognition of an American pioneer-and the 66c win, or is it only because the pioneer happens to be called Levine...
Beginning with the work of Professor Charles Eliot Norton, the early apostle and pioneer in the field of Fine Arts in the University, under whose guidance the old Fogg Art Museum Building, the gift of Mrs. William Hayes Fogg of New York as a memorial to her husband, was erected, an era of rapid advancement has culminated in the construction of the new Fogg Museum on the southwest corner of Quincy Street. Directly the new Fogg Museum is a result of the $2,000,000 raised in 1924 to build a new Museum and to provide for it an endowment...
...Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports deplores the loss of its Secretary and Graduate Treasurer, Fred Wadsworth Moore '93, manager of the University football team in '91 and '92, for many years a constant and fearless contributor to pioneer athletic policies, a member of the Football Rules Committee for 12 years, and who, for 16 years as Graduate Treasurer of the Athletic Association of his alma mater has rendered conspicuous service to Harvard and to many other colleges. This Committee is deeply appreciative of his loyal service and his honest criticism...