Word: websterisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HARVARD YALE Donaldson, l.e. r.e., Hansen Webster, l.t. r.t., Miles Dannunzio, l.g. r.g., Taylor Sibley, c. c., Underwood Worthem, r.g. l.g., Albright Snelling, r.t. l.t., Gossett Vaughn, r.e. l.e., Laug Ketchum, q.b. q.b., Miller Beyer, r.h. l.h., Chapman Nyhoff, l.h. r.h., Paige Serino, f.b. f.b., McGowan...
Engineers from Stone & Webster were called in. They prescribed complete electrification, the construction of six large central breakers. They said $30,000,000 would be needed and compiled a table showing that if the work had been done six years before, PRC's profits, after interest charges on the new money, would have averaged $1,525,000 a year instead...
...Wales have been leading foreign sellers of coal to the U. S., but last fortnight Burns Bros., most potent distributor of coal in the New York area, announced it would start importing some anthracite from Germany. If Andrew J. Maloney, flanked on one side by Stone & Webster engineering skill, on the other by Morgan-Drexel financial shrewdness and potency, can lead PRC to stability of earnings, perhaps eventually to dividends, he will have won one of the hardest battles in U. S. industry...
Stockbroker Edwin Sibley Webster of Stone & Webster paid $32,500 for a Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington, before he noticed a small stamp in the upper right hand corner on the back of the canvas: COPY FROM THE ORIGINAL IN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM...
...Webster '93, assistant professor of English, is also in Oxford now, it was learned. He is spending the first half-year abroad on leave of absence, and is now the guest of the Gilbert Murrays. Mr. Murray, the distinguished English translator and critic, was the first incumbent of the Norton Chair at Harvard five years...