Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England champion, was the winner of the senior singles race yesterday in the final day of the first annual fall rowing regatta. Codman, the winner of the American Henley at Philadelphia in 1929 and runner-up in the nationals last year, was about a length ahead of W. I. Stuart '28, at the finish. The five other boats came in a considerable distance behind the two leaders, F. C. Bell '33 placing third...
...rough for boating and the race had to be rowed on the three-quarter mile upstream course. The stiff breeze with which the oarsmen had to contend was responsible for the comparatively slow time of the winner. Codman was rowing for the Union Boat Club of Boston and Stuart for the Cambridge Boat Club...
...cavalry (Meade insisting it should be merely auxiliary to infantry, Sheridan that it should be independent ), Grant upheld Sheridan, let him build up the cavalry as a separate division of the army. Sheridan had two big jobs: policing the Shenandoah Valley and beating Confederate Cavalry General J. E. B. Stuart. He cleared the Valley and on a raid behind Lee's lines Stuart was killed at Yellow Tavern. Many a schoolboy knows of the Battle of Cedar Creek, when Sheridan, supposedly riding hard from Winchester, "20 miles away," rallied his men and turned a rout into victory. Sheridan...
...years ago, Stuart Chase let a good deal of light into this jungle by writing a book called "Your Money's Worth," in which he showed that the individual buyer is hopelessly lost in a Wonderland of conflicting and meaningless claims. Though large consumers, such as great hotels, can command the services of testing laboratories and can lower expenses by letting manufacturers offer bids to their rigid specifications, the unprotected small buyer has none of the technical facilities to make comparative tests. Mr. Chase urged that unbiased information be made available to every intelligent buyer. Recently this has been done...
Philanthropic U. S. citizens who contribute to Yenching University at Peiping were relieved when President Dr. John Leighton Stuart cabled last week that his Cninese students are ignoring the militarist demonstrations of other Chinese students and continue to study...