Word: graven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Caldbeck churchyard the sentimental sportsmen, primed for song, were shocked to find that persons unknown had covered the historic tombstone of John Peel with sheet iron, obliterating his name, and the fox, hounds and horn graven thereon...
Philanthropically, the 26th Division made amends. Collecting $50,000, they rebuilt the church, will rededicate it this autumn. On its walls they have graven the names of their casualties...
...gracious tribute is paid in the new bronze tablet erected at Princeton to the honor of those who have served their alma mater by long hours of vigil on the side line benches. The words, "In appreciation of our Princeton football scrubs--past, present, and future" graven on the walls of the field house near the dressing room of the scrubs justly recognizes the men who day by day have given their time and taken the knocks to put the winning polish on the first eleven. Where the roaring plaudits of loyal backers comes to university athletics, gratitude...
Although the Harkness name has been graven most deeply and often at Yale, it is spread generously among institutions throughout the land. Recently the Albany, N. Y., Medical College received $250,000 from Edward Stephen Harkness. Not long ago he gave $1,000,000 to the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University...
...Graven and seered upon Hungarian souls are bitter memories of the "Red Terror" to which all Hungary was subjected for 143 days, in 1919, during the Communist regime of the notorious, fat, spiderlike Bela...