Word: ancestors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...older Thomas Moran, ancestor of all, brought his family from Bolton, Lancashire, to Philadelphia in 1844. The boys went to the public schools. The talent of Edward, the eldest, developed first and it was he who first gave lessons to young Thomas after the latter had tried being a wood engraver's apprentice, cabinetmaker, bronzeworker, housepainter, weaver, and mender of looms. Before long, Ruskin saw a plate by Thomas Moran Jr, in a London exhibition and singled it out as the finest contribution from...
...Giesche have operated in Upper Silesia, gathering into their Bergwerke Georg von Giesche Gesellschaft Erben (Estate) zinc mines (the largest in Europe), bituminous coal fields (present production 3,500,000 tons yearly), lead mines, concentrating plants, smelting works, melting furnaces, rolling mills, agricultural lands, 20,000 employes. The ancestor in 1704 willed that no other than his lineal descendants might own stock in his Estate. But War and aftermath have impoverished these descendants. They had to appeal to the Anaconda Copper Co. and to William Averell Harriman (who has spent much time in Europe since the War snapping up industrial...
...bred shiftlessness; until today, if you stop at a romantic sylvan encampment in the New Forest and converse with its chief personage-usually a hawk-faced great-grandmother, who will offer you dirty tea and whine for a shilling-you will find that none can remember when any ancestor of the band first "took to woods." They have no legends...
...days, with their "contemporaneous ancestor" among them, Scout Leaders made plans for the coming year. New officials, men of prominence, were elected: Walter W. Head of Omaha, President (succeeding Milton A. McRae of Detroit); Mortimer L. Schiff of Oyster Bay, Vice President, also Milton A. McRae; George D. Pratt, Treasurer; Daniel Carter Beard, National Scout Commissioner (re-elected). The honorary officers include Calvin Coolidge, President, and Vice Presidents William H. Taft, William G. McAdoo, Colin H. Livingstone...
...Abraham, ancestor of the Israelites, came from...