Word: platee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moreover, the uni-continental theory has too many historic possibilities to be lightly tossed aside. It is at once the key to the vexatious problem of the migration of the Indians from Asia to America and the mysterious disappearance of the fabled Atlantis, which Plate mentions as being just beyond the Gates of Hercules in his time. Perhaps in the future when American history is no longer honeycombed with patriotic myths, school-children in addition to learning that the Pilgrims did not and on Plymouth Rock, will also be taught that Columbus sailed west, not because he thought the World...
...four days last week before the Interstate Commerce Commission at Washington, lawyers for opposing factions of railroaders, bankers and investors tersely yet passionately made their final pleas for and against the proposed billion-and -a -half consolidation of the Nickel Plate, Erie, Pere Marquette, Hocking Valley and Chesapeake & Ohio railroads into a fourth great eastern system to complement the already existing New York Central, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore & Ohio lines. Stock in the five roads involved sufficient to swing the deal is already controlled by Oris Paxton Van Sweringen and his brother Mantis J. Van Sweringen, the genii of the plan...
Vigorously opposed to such a merger are certain minority stockholders of the Chesapeake & Ohio repsented by Colonel Henry W. Anderson, a lawyer resourceful in arguments, who thus summed up: "The interests behind this plan want to get the Nickel Plate and the Erie, through the Chesapeake & Ohio, into both [the Pennsylvania...
...blocked kick, a fumble, an intercepted pass, and the hard little beans of Boston College popped through the pork of Holy Cross to engrave another victory on their silver plate. Score: Boston 17, Holy Cross...
...small bronze plate beside a doorway on upper Fifth Avenue [Manhattan], one may read the name Colgate & Co. This doorway leads to the new Colgate Salon and Showrooms, opened last spring, and to step through it is to step straight into fairyland-at least that is what those who visit it assure us. The Salon is the work of Howard Greenley, famous architect, and contains a complete display of Colgate products...