Word: plant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon President Coolidge pressed a miniature gold spike into a peculiar contrivance; the two Senators and the five Representatives from the state of Washington stood by in rapt attention; almost instantaneously wheels began to go around in a municipal power plant at Tacoma, Wash. Next day Mrs. Coolidge took up a trowel and smeared a great big stone all over with mortar?not just the usual lady-like dab?and the Y. W. C. A. then had laid the cornerstone of their new building in Washington...
Died. Ivan Andre Bogdanoff, onetime Russian cavalryman, Senior in the Sheffield Scientific School, through which he was working his way by laboring in off hours at the Winchester Arms Plant; at New Haven, Conn., of heart disease, resulting from war activities...
Arthur Capper, United States Senator from Kansas, will serve as the Chairman of the jury of award with six other indivuals one of whom, M. T. Copeland '07 is at present a professor in the graduate School of Business Administration of the University. Edward Plant, president of the Lehn and Fink Products Company of New York, has offered the prize...
...body supports one, from the tiny four page weekly of the rural college to the complete imitation metropolitan daily in the big university. The Daily Illinois, University of Illinois, for instance, serves a community of 30,000 as the only morning paper and is printed in a university-owned plant valued at $100,000. These papers from laboratories for countless schools of journalism and furnish occupation for scores of students...
...past performance of their craft, though Byrd's Fokker Josephine Ford had flown with astonishing success where Amundsen's planes failed last year. There would be fame enough for one and all. Yet it was absurd to deny rivalry. Each party of polar pilgrims carried flags to plant, or drop, for the U. S. or Norway, upon whatever continent or islands have lain hidden to date in the polar fastnesses...