Word: john
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...male; that is, the giving of the name to the family." Famed Tau Beta Pi members include: Robert Andrews Millikan,* Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Leo Hendrick Baekeland (bakelite),* President Harold Sherburne Boardman of University of Maine, the late George Washington Goethals (builder of Panama Canal),* the late Charles Proteus Steinmetz,* John Hays Hammond,† Dean Dexter Simpson Kimball of Cornell's engineering college,* the late Elmer Ambrose Sperry.† Architect Irving Kane Pond, Bridge Builder Ralph Modjeski,* President Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories,*President Charles Russ Richards of Lehigh University, Irving Langmuir of General Electric...
...Baton Rouge, La., was brought John Schenayder, 82, backwoodsman, charged with making whiskey. Speaking only French, John Schenayder pleaded guilty through an interpreter, said that he had been making whiskey 50 years, had never heard of the Prohibition law, did noi know that the Civil War was over...
...even at Christmas, if you have the remotest interest in fox-hunting you can only be glad if some tycoonish friend bought and bestowed on you this book. Designed and printed by famed Typographer D. B. Updike, illustrated with old prints, engravings, modern drawings, with Forewords by Poet Laureate John Masefield, Edgar Astley Milne (the "sporting parson," co-Master of the Cattislock Hunt, Dorset, England), As Hounds Ran is as complete and readable an anthology of the sport as you could wish...
...page they reprint some moral tale or verse from some such temperance sourcebook as No Gin Today, Anecdotes from the Platform, Temperance Annual; then counter at the bottom with recipes for drinks. The scheme, more ingenious than its execution, is helped somewhat by pseudo-Victorian pseudo-engravings by Artist John Held Jr. Like all rummagings in the attic, this one recovers some rare antiques; the full version of that affecting ballad, "Father, Dear Father Come Home with Me Now"; the verisimilitudinous fable of the aleful mother who staggered home with her child in one arm, a bag of meal...
...Acting president since the death of John Clayton Fant...