Word: precursor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belgian named George Nagelmackers visited the U. S. in the 1860's, purchased the patent of the Mann Railway Sleeping Car Carriage, precursor of Puliman. In Brussels he founded what is now La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Europeens (The International Company of Sleeping Cars and of Great European Expresses). This firm, called Wagons-Lits for short, not only supplies individual dining and sleeping cars to European railways, much as Pullman does to U. S. railways, but also makes up entire trains (except the locomotives), and arranges with a score of governments to run them...
...Years of dental history were sketched colorfully by Yale's Physiologist Howard Wilcox Haggard, able popularizer. The first dentists were mountebanks who probably snatched purses on the side. All they knew was how to pull teeth, open gumboils. For extractions they used a fearsome instrument called "the pelican," precursor of the Stillson wrench. It always got the offending tooth usually accompanied by one on each side and one above. To keep teeth healthy the 16th Century dentist advised eating a mouse once a month, fumigating the mouth with smoke from onion seeds...
...Vagabond is not interested in psychology, it is a dismal subject at best. So it is with great pleasure that he goes today at 12 to Emerson D to hear Professor Lowes talk on Wordsworth, the precursor of the Romanticists. Wordsworth himself, the Vagabond firmly believes, only wrote five poems that can be read without the aid of a bromo-seltzer, but he was the primary influence in one of the greatest literary periods the modern world has ever known...
...discussed over the "anti-religious" attitude of the CRIMSON. I believe that I am correctly interpreting both the editorial and the large mass of opinion opposed to the erection of a memorial chapel in refuting this. Those maintaining that the building of a suitable chapel will be the precursor to a revival of religion at Harvard, even if they are right in their prediction, which I deny, damn their faith by admitting that it is dependent on brick and mortar. With regard to the place, the prospect of a tower higher than that of Memorial Hall to "balance" Widener Library...
Seniors in Harvard College are now eligible to apply for membership in the Harvard Club of Boston according to an announcement made last night following a meeting of the club. This radical departure from the policy of a club is hailed as the probable precursor of movements of a similar nature in Harvard Clubs throughout the country...