Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...department under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to the immense plant of the George F. Baker Foundation indicates in concrete terms the progress which the School has made in putting business training on a parity with that of any other profession. The vision of the early founders clearly saw the importance to society of business leaders bred not alone in the school of experience, but in an institution where professional traditions leave their stamp. It is this, perhaps, this new emphasis on the professional standing and obligation of the business man, that stands out as one of the greatest...
...illuminated portions of darkest Africa, first explored by the famed Sir Henry Morton Stanley, the Belgian Congo consists of 900,000 square miles of tropical jungle, crossed by the Equator and watered by the Congo River. It was long-bearded, farsighted, savagely-flayed Leopold II of Belgium who first saw in the Congo district an opportunity for taking up the White Man's burden and the Black Man's resources. Leopold created the Congo Free State, fought with natives and slavers, built railroads, finally (1908) made the Congo a Belgian colony as his gift to the Belgian people...
Last spring soft-spoken Editor William Ludlow Chenery of Collier's pondered Hidalgo's startling growth. Soon he despatched Writer Owen P. White, oldtime Texan, to be Hidalgo's historian. Writer White was amazed at many things he saw just above the Rio Grande. Among them, naturally, was "Rooster" Creager who, with Boss Baker, seemed to rule the Hidalgo roost. In his subsequent history, Writer White said: "It's right there [Hidalgo County] . . . that our two most stylish American breakfast foods, GRAFT and GRAPEFRUIT . . . have been brought to their very highest and juiciest state of perfection. . . . R. B. Creager...
...Manhattan, one Omar Lutfey, restaurateur, emerged from a speakeasy, saw Patrolman William Dunn, flung himself to the ground, gnawed the policeman's leg, roared, "I'm a lion...
...week's end Western Air Express Pilot George K. Rice saw, high up in the forests on Mt. Taylor, 11,289-ft. extinct volcano on the Continental Divide, midway between Albuquerque and Gallup, what seemed small patches of snow. He flew low. In the sunlight, midst trees, gleamed pieces of duralumin. In Pilot Rice's words: "Then we saw the left wing of the plane where it had been cut off by striking a tree. The wing was turned upside down and we could read the [license] numbers 9649. The balance of the plane we saw about...