Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. (Northern) met in Cleveland. Its official host was the 114-year-okl Old Stone Presbyterian Church on the Public Square, but the 2,000 laymen and clerical commissioners held their meetings in Euclid Avenue Baptist Church. Fundamentalists went to Cleveland brandishing threats. Liberals and moderate conservatives squelched them in electing a moderator, in dealing with their "Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions," and this week were expected to trounce them in voting a merger with the United Presbyterian Church. Out of a field of three, Dr. William Chalmers Covert of Philadelphia was elected...
...astonishment at the scheme's simplicity. Since BMT operates wholly within New York City its bonds were exempt from registration unless they were to be sold in interstate commerce. Normally an $8,000,000 bond issue is distributed throughout the land, but Chairman Dahl and his bankers-Hayden, Stone; Kuhn, Loeb; Lehman Brothers; J. & W. Seiigman-decided to sell BMT bonds only to bona fide residents of New York State. Though use of the mails is permitted in connection with the intrastate sale of unregistered securities. Chairman Dahl and friends took no chances. No advertisements were to be published...
...Sever 20 Dr. Chase, Sec. 2 Sever 13 Dr. Finley, Sec. 3 Sever 14 Latin 1 Sever 19 Mathematics A III (see footnote*) Dr. Whitney, Sec. 1 Sever 30 Mr. Downs, Sec. 2 Sever 31 Mr. Leighton, Sec. 3 Sever 32 Mathematics 2 II (see footnote*) Professor Stone, Sec. 1 New Lect. Hall Dr. Rust, Sec. 2 Sever 6 Mathematics 5b Mallinckrodt MB 23 Mathematics 34 Sever 18 Philosophy 8a Emerson 27 Physics 26 Pierce 110 Physics 31 Sever 28 Physiology 7 Sever 8 Semitic 1 Sever 18 Slavic 1c Sever 18 Sociology 13 Emerson A Spanish 5 Sever...
...firmly believe that its growth must be gradual in order to be sure. The plan is destined to a manifold development, only a small part of which is as yet under way. We are here today to mark the establishing of that part--to lay the corner stone of a structure which will need time to build, but which must ultimately prove of consequence in the service of mankind...
...traces of early man, the party found crude scrapers and knives made of limestone and volcanic rock. First evidence of an Old Stone Age culture in northern India, these implements were unearthed in a Pleistocene swamp deposit 500,000 years old. Other notable finds included fossils of land tortoises big enough to dwarf the Galapagos giants, and of four-horned ruminants bigger than rhinoceroses but related to giraffes...