Word: 40s
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William B. Ogden, Chicago's first great realtor, was bitterly disappointed when he first arrived, but in the '40s Garlic Creek became the Chicago River. In 1861 Cook County offered $300 for each substitute, to keep the county free of conscription. In 1867 Chicago "had the pick of the best food and nothing remained but to know how to cook it." Bismarck, campaigning against the French, said to General Sherman: "I wish I could see that Chicago...
Copper Camp. California roared in the '40s, but Montana did its roaring while the East was enjoying the elegant '80s. In 1870, only 241 men and women were staking their fortunes on the 6-foot pit in the earth which two prospectors had discovered six years earlier. They were tapping surface veins of gold and silver. They did not suspect that the real wealth of Montana's barren hills lay deeper in the earth...
Freshman Six-Lap Won by Harvard: Waters. Hartnett. Driver. Smith. Time, 8m., 40s...
...Pound Class.--Illingsworth (Y) defeated L. B. Smith '25 by decision. Time advantage 4m. 40s...
Unlimited Class,--H. B. Wagner '23 defeated Overlander (D) by fall. Time, 1m. 40s...