Word: willards
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Died. Joseph Willard Legg, 41, famed expert in oscillography (wave phenomena), inventor of the osiso (portable oscillograph) and the polar high-speed camera. Westinghouse associate; of pneumonia; in Wilkinsburg, Pa. With his camera, which takes 3,000 pictures a second, Inventor Legg discovered that lightning flashes are a series of complex spirals...
...Daniel Willard for the Baltimore & Ohio and the Van Sweringens for the Chesapeake & Ohio last week made another feint towards accomplishing consolidations of eastern railroads. In 1920 Congress authorized the railroads to consolidate into trunk systems. But there was no acceptable plan. So the railroads have bought to form system themselves. Between the Mississippi, Great Lakes and Atlantic Seaboard, the Pennsylvania, New York Central and B. & O. were solidly braced to take on smaller lines. The Van Sweringens entered the situation by buying control of the Nickel Plate, Chesapeake & Ohio, Erie, Pere Marquette and Hocking Valley and offering a plan...
...dined with Secretary Mellon while Under-Secretary Ogden Livingston Mills entertained Vice President and Mrs. Dawes. Two evenings later the Justices of the Supreme Court of the U. S. and their wives, and twoscore other guests, drove to the White House to dine. Among the twoscore were Railroader Daniel Willard. Drugman Louis Kroh Liggett, Oilman Clay Arthur Pierce (who tendered his late father's fishing lodge at Brule, Wis., for Summer White House last year), and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford. It was by no means the first time the Fords had visited the White House but Mr. Ford...
...Davison '06 will again direct the program for the annual Christmas choral service to be held in Appleton Chapel this afternoon and evening. Rev. E. C. Moore. Professor of Christian Morals in the University will conduct the afternoon meeting which will begin at 4.30 o'clock, while the Rev. Willard Learoyd Sperry. Professor of Homileties will lead the evening service. Although this service will not begin until $15 o'clock the doors of the chapel will be opened at 7.45 o'clock. The Harvard University Choir and the Radcliffe Choral Society will render a special musical program of Christmas carols...
...Reverend Willard Learoyd Sperry, D.D. Professor of Homiletics and Dean of the Theological School, and Chairman of the Board of Preachers, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...