Word: stephenson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...without these gifts has seldom blazed out very brightly in the march of the Immortals through history, whatever his real achievements, and no man possessing them has ever been quite forgotten, although his major vocation in life was neither art nor literature. Who remembers Arkwright, Crompton and Stephenson, the chief pioneers in the industrial revolution which ushered in the entire mechanism of modern civilization? How long before the Wrights of the aeroplane, Bell of the telephone, Marconi of the wireless will be mere signposts marking the evolution of mechanical progress? They could not press agent themselves in immortal language...
HARVARD WILLIAMS Lincoin, 3b. c.f., Buck Gordon, r.f. r.f., Bixby Conlon, s.s. s.s, O'Brien Owen 1b. 1 b., Itichmond Buell, 2b. l.f., Mongo Janin, l.f. 2b., Hoyt Hallock, c.f. 3b., Fincke Murphy, c. c., Stephenson Gehrke, p. p., Cobb or Gregory...