Word: starr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entomology and bionomics at Stanford University when Herbert Hoover was an undergraduate. Kansas-raised (Emporia), he had studied at Cornell, Leipzig, Paris. He had the scientific method that Hoover valued and was developing. While Hoover engineered in far parts, Scientist Kellogg stayed at Stanford, collaborating with Dr. David Starr Jordan, teaching classes, gaining a quiet renown. There were Hoover-Kellogg reunions whenever the wandering engineer returned to Palo Alto. In 1915 the engineer sent a call to Palo Alto and the quiet scientist went to Belgium to be a willing Hoover man for six years. Dr. Kellogg is not likely...
John Dewey's bust was fashioned by the able hands of Sculptor Jacob Epstein. Among those whose gift it was were Oliver Wendell Holmes, Clarence Darrow, Economist Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman, Sociologist Owen Reed Lovejoy, Educator-Scientist David Starr Jordan, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise...
Fifty-nine such Pink Pearls were recently threaded by Black, Starr & Frost (Manhattan) into one exquisite necklace, delicately blended, delicately matched. Amateur and professional connoisseurs last week acclaimed it the most magnificent in existence; exhausted superlatives; declared $685,000 a reasonable price...
...Famous Fifty-nine dribbled through unknown channels into the coffers of Black, Starr & Frost. Some they have had for 20 years. Others were collected by their agents in Continental and Eastern markets. Where they may have nestled, whence they may have come, no man can tell save only this: none is "old;" i.e., has ever been worn. As each pearl came in, experts scrutinized; demanded flawless texture, absolute sphericity, iridescent blush. A dozen, a score passed muster. The necklace was conceived. Pearl by perfect pearl, it grew until six months ago the fifty-ninth completed the only famous necklace...
Many magnificent and historic individual gems still survive. Black, Starr & Frost has an emerald presumably from the Russian Crown collection. Tiffany recently acquired a ruby considered the finest it ever owned. Last week, Queen Mary of England attended the opening of Parliament wearing the Cullinan diamond, largest in the world, estimated to be worth...