Word: succession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quadrangle on Shepard Street. By 1908 these were built and in use; by 1914 two other dormitories were built and occupied. After the war Dean Briggs undertook to add $1,000,000 to the college endowment, and at his last commencement as president, in 1923, he announced the success of the campaign...
...send the eights ahead with about the same amount of rythm as his rivals for the position and he may accustom himself to the shift if he is given a slightly longer stay in the stern. Harrison has been rowing at stroke for nearly a week and his success at driving the crews marks him as one of the strongest of the many contenders for the berth...
President Coolidge had little success with the problem. Last week President Hoover announced his solution of the boundary dispute. It provided: 1) Chile to retain Arica and its nitrate fields, Peru to take Tacna with its vineyards; 2) Chile to pay Peru six million dollars; to deliver all government buildings in Tacna to Peru without cost; 3) both nations to erect jointly a monument on the morro of Arica to commemorate the peaceful settlement of the dispute...
...face of these expert opinions, Scientist-Financier Adams remained a dissenter. He had read in foreign scientific publications about the success some Swiss engineers were having with Alternating Current, which requires, as schoolboys know, much less initial impulse and much less bulky lines for transmission over long distances, than is required for Direct Current. Proponents of Direct were saying that high voltages of Alternating would "jump right off the wire"; that it was dangerous, fit only for use in lethal chairs at penitentiaries. Mr. Adams quietly ordered some experiments in insulation, which eventuated in the familiar porcelain cup device...
...International officials to try to buy many midwest newspapers. The Cleveland Plain Dealer, said Co-Publisher Thomason, was approached by him. It refused an offer of 21 million dollars. The Plain Dealer was not for sale, Mr. Thomason was told. With many another journal he had the same success. But in three newspapers (Chicago Journal, Tampa Tribune, Greensboro, N. C. Record) owned by Bryan-Thomason, International has an interest...