Word: wyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although eleven men figured in the scoring, it was Princeton's junior line of Bob Bordley, Horatio Turner and Ralph Wyer, called by Coach Dick Vaughan as good a forward line as any in college hockey, that inflicted the major punishment on the Blue. Among them, this trio accounted for 5 goals and 9 assists, Wyer himself getting 5 assists...
...Samuel S. Wyer investigated the government-operated hydroelectric power system in Ontario, concluded that it was not so good as it had been pictured by those in the U. S. favoring the same system. The Smithsonian Institution naively issued the Wyer report as one of its official documents. Power companies promptly seized upon this Smithsonian publication as a prime piece of authentic propaganda for use in their battle against the Progressive proposal for government operation of the Muscle Shoals plant. Nebraska's Senator Norris at that time denounced the Smithsonian for permitting itself to lend aid and comfort...
...contained about 40% alcohol). Other meetings were held in hotels, schools, theatres. Layman after layman, pastor after pastor, youth after youth, expounded world peace, church unity, Prohibition, etc., etc. As the days passed, it appeared that the convention was definitely Modernistic. Vigorously so, progressive, for example, was Samuel S. Wyer, baldish, mustachioed Columbus consulting engineer, who addressed the laymen thus: "I doubt if there is any other book which ranges from such sublime heights to such degrading depths as the Bible. The Bible was not written by God. If God wrote the Bible he would have done a better...
Some pastors thought Engineer Wyer should not have been invited to speak; many felt that he had been somewhat harsh. The pastors were particularly eager to hear sturdy, bespectacled Dr. Frederick William Norwood, eloquent Australian-born minister of London's City Temple.* One of his chief reasons for visiting the U. S. was to attend the Pentecostal celebration. He spoke with great verve. "Dare we say," he inquired, "that we are civilized when at this moment the representatives of the great governments are sitting with drawn lips, like men playing cards, trying to see how much power they...