Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R. R.'s "Pioneer Limited" that left Chicago last week carried the first Pullman cars to travel over the company's rails in the 37 years since the founding of the road. President Edward F. Carry of the Pullman Co. and Receiver Harry E, Byram of the St. Paul had ended a long company estrangement inherited from the late President Roswell Miller of the St. Paul and the late founder George M. Pullman of the sleeping car company. The two men had quarreled; their followers had maintained hostilities...
...jump from the U. S. to Paris. Loaded with enough gasoline to cross the Atlantic, their plane roared along the ground at Langley Field, near Hampton, Va. Gradually, almost painfully, it rose to a height of some 50 feet. A row of trees, planted years ago by an industrious pioneer, now rose up to thwart these air pioneers. Lieutenant Wooster turned the beak of the American Legion, slightly, ever so slightly. With that turn, the plane lost flying speed. A landing was now imperative. Marshes, mud flats, duck ponds yawned below. Upon a small patch of green, Lieutenant Wooster made...
Other busts to be unveiled and added to the Hall of Fame, on the campus of New York University, will be those of J. J. Audubon, naturalist; Admiral D. G. Farragut; Benjamin- Franklin; Washington Irving, historian and essayist; and Mary Lyon, pioneer in the education of women and founder of Mount Holyoke College...
...intensity of his Protestantism, had already rejected the historic outcome of Christianity, and to a large extent the ideals and modes of life which had gone with it. Three thousand miles of ocean merely made his disassociation from the past more permanent. The disassociated colonist, in turn, produced the pioneer, who renouncing even the fragments of European culture remaining on the sea-board sought an outlet for his restless vigor in the conquest of the wilderness. The frontier vanished; industrialism offered a new channel for his boundless energies. The pioneer became the business man. Pragmatists like James and Dewey, mistaking...
...oldtime pigtailed Chinese who is in revolt against the foreigner, but instead modern, pigtailless, Chinese soldiers and intellectuals. 1New York Herald Tribune. 25t. Paul Pioneer Press. 3Dayton Daily News...