Word: sanford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dignified his institution with the name Pomfret School in 1899. Ten years later his brother, Bishop Charles Sanford Olmsted of Arizona, ordained him a Protestant Episcopal priest. Wise to the necessity of enlarging his plant through the generosity of parents and alumni, Mr. O had Pomfret fitted out as became a Good Eastern School. A $135,000 Romanesque chapel, the gift of Trustee E. Walter Clark, was brought stone by stone, slate by slate from England. In keeping, Mr. O made his 140 boys wear starched white collars when they went within to worship...
...Spirited was the report of Superintendent of Prisons Sanford Bates who called for the "professionalization of prison management." In ironic statistics he suggested his difficulties: "8,563 parole cases came before the parole board, of which the Superintendent of Prisons was by law a member. If he sat every working day, he would have to hear 28 cases a day. This is one of his sparetime diversions." And again: "One of these [officers] had 1,738 probation cases in his charge. If he visits them once a month, he will have to visit almost 60 a day, seven days...
...Bigelow-Sanford. Inventor of the power loom was Erastus B. Bigelow who became head of what is now the Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Co. (Massachusetts), oldest U. S. carpet makers. Last week the oldest carpet makers absorbed the oldest rug manufacturers, Stephen Sanford & Sons (New York) founded...
Facts are now out for most of the first round arguments. The following clubs will meet in the early competitions: Beal vs. Morgan; Bracton vs. Van Devanter; Bryce vs. Taft; Burke vs. Sayre; Cardozo vs. Powell; Chafee vs. Sanford; Choate Parsons vs. Coke; G. Gray vs. Root; Hudson vs. Sayre; Kent vs. Williston; Lowell vs. Thayer-Holmes; Marshall vs. Scott; Plumer vs. Pound; Pollock vs. Warren; Reading vs. Sutherland; J. Smith vs. Story...
Then Associate Justices McReynolds, Sutherland and Sanford, the last two wearing the Court's only chin-whiskers. August in black-silk, tailored to flow sedately, to their tasks they file...