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Word: tacoma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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...play is in two acts, the first laid in and about a summer hotel in Tacoma, Washington, the second in the garden of the Marquis Hari Kari, the Japanese governor of Nagasaki. The plot centres about the endeavors of a young collegian named Wigglesworth to earn an honest living, and his infatuation with May Lifter, the daughter of Thomas Lawson Lifter, a Chicago magnate. His college career is cut short by the villainy of an uncle who robbed him of his money, and he goes west to seek his fortune in Tacoma, where Thomas Lawson Lifter with his two daughters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annual Pi Eta Society Play | 2/1/1906 | See Source »

...Lifter discharges his chauffeur, and Wigglesworth applies with success for the position. At this point, Webster Smith, a lawyer, arrives in Tacoma looking for Wigglesworth, whose uncle has recently died leaving no will, and whose fortune accordingly belongs to his nephew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annual Pi Eta Society Play | 2/1/1906 | See Source »

...contents of the Engineering Journal, which appeared on Monday are as follows: "Puyallup River Water Power Development and High Tension Transmission to Seattle and Tacoma, Washington," by J. F. Vaughan '95; "The American Diesel Engine," by E. D. Meier; "Some Architectual Elements," by W. D. Swan; "Train Resistance in Relation to the Track," by Dr. P. H. Dudley; editorials, and architectual notes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: June Engineering Monthly | 6/7/1905 | See Source »

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