Word: crotone
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Robert K. Scarbacher, of Miami, Florida in Electrical Engineering; James D. Parsons '35, of Croton-on-Hudson, New York, in Soil Mechanics; Matti H. Pakkala, of Washington, D. C., in Metallurgy; Tsung-Hwa Suh, of Shanghai, China in Neurology...
...great fire of 1835, New York City was saved from annihilation only because numerous buildings were dynamited. As a result, one of the first acts of reconstruction was the Croton Aqueduct, financed by the sale of lottery tickets. Even after the Aqueduct was finished, fire-fighting remained in the hands of private companies whose rivalries frequently threatened the city, since partisans of one company or another would seize the hydrant near a blaze, prevent its use until friends arrived. Such colorful items of dubious historical importance Henry Collins Brown includes in a volume on Victorian New York, succeeds in writing...
Since Hearn's publishes no income statement, no man knew last week whether there were any profits to sacrifice. But that did not bother President Levin, who has never drawn any salary or dividends. Yet he keeps a large apartment in Manhattan, a country place at Croton, N. Y. where he keeps riding horses. Ten years ago, at 36, he was already a wealthy...
Floyd Dell and his wife, still married, have left an unpleasantly post-War Greenwich Village behind them, live, as post-graduate bohemians now. at Croton-on-Hudson...
...each terrace, and drives flanked by Japanese maple, dogwood, evergreens. He wore a cropped mustache and bejewelled stickpin, was referred to as an "oldfashioned banker." one whose suggestions were "received with respect in Washington." (In 1918 he suggested filling the Central Park Reservoir with coal. "New York has its Croton; why not a coal reserve...