Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President: Perhaps not, but I could get word to 20 or 30 that they were being considered for the honor...
...appreciate this opportunity to say a word to the generation which presently will assume the responsibility of our banks, utilities, rail-roads, factories and all other assets," said Roger W. Babson, leading financial expert, to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
...from mere technical knowledge, readily acquired and honesty, much more common than is sometimes thought are the qualities requisite for success in business?" I told him: "Judgment, courage, and that combining and balancing quality which may be called resourcefulness." Perhaps I might better have used the good old Yankee word "gumption." He smiled at me indulgently. "Well," he said, "you can't teach those." The response was obvious: "Does West Point training aid in developing successful Army officers, and what apart from technical knowledge and honesty, makes for success in that profession?" He meditated a moment, and then replied...
...brother Dean Theodore Jesse Hoover of Stanford University, or of his White House Major Domo Ike Hoover or of Herbert W. (vacuum cleaners) Hoover, or of any one of a half dozen other important Hoovers (TIME: Dec. 24) who might seek to live there. Washington was only a word which brought smiles to the faces of Betty Jean's parents. Mr. & Mrs. W. H. Hoover and of chummy F. A. Greeley...
Citizens of graftless San Francisco thought back over 25 years, when large in San Francisco's vocabulary was the word Graft, when Fremont Older rose to fame among San Francisco journalists...