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Word: boynton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...head of Texas Corp. and of the oil committee that would have to superintend the carrying out of whatever oil-restriction agreements were made, and many another. It was a notable company that American Petroleum Institute had assembled in the big director's room that is dominated by Artist Boynton's portrait of A. P. I. Founder, A. C. Bedford. Not for nothing, thought Sir Henri, sprinkling cheese-crumbs, bread crumbs on the grey carpet, had the Isle de France rushed him across the Atlantic and docked him the day before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Smooth Oil | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...mystery of evil that every man can read into it the drama of his own experience. "Mr. D. H. Lawrence sees in the conflict a battle between the blood-consciousness of the white race and its own abstract intellect, which attempts to hunt and slay it: Mr. Percy Boynton sees in the whale all property and vested privilege, laming the spirit of man: Mr. Van Wyck Brooks has found in the white whale an image like that of Grendel in Beowulf, expressing the Northern consciousness of the hard fight against the elements; while for the disciple of Jung, the white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Melville the Great | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...photographs, drawings, and paintings are dated from the pioneer years of railroading to the present time. Many queer looking engines are portrayed, including the "Samson", "Stoverbridge Lion", the "Norris", and "Boynton Bicycle Engine Number 1" This last contrivance had only one large wheel under the boiler with the engineer's cab located on top of the fireman's cab, the last located only a few feet above the road...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 12/5/1928 | See Source »

...Reverend Boynton Merrill, D. D., Minister of the Second Congregational Church, West Newton, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel | 10/2/1928 | See Source »

...seacoast cities of West Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Lake Worth, Delray, Boynton, Jupiter and Stuart were glutted with wreckage. At Palm Beach many fastidiously designed homes (Stotesbury, Wanamaker, Frazier) became ugly shards of architecture. The seaside Royal Poinciana, famed hostelry of social idlers, was totally wrecked. The Breakers, newer, more substantial, lost the roofs of its north and south wings. But on the seacoast few lives were lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Aftermath | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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