Word: scofield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Teagle's maternal grandfather, Morris Clark, was first partner of John Davison Rockefeller, in the days before Mr. Rockefeller began the formation of Standard Oil. His father, John Teagle, was an early oilman. It was to drive a tank car in his father's firm (Scofield, Schurmer & Teagle) that young Walter Teagle in 1900 refused an instructorship at Cornell University, from which he had just been graduated. Then the Republic Oil Company absorbed Scofield, Schurmer & Teagle and Walter Teagle, at 23, became Republic's vice president. In 1903 he went to Standard of New Jersey, as member of its export...
...must to most magazines carrying little advertising, Death will come next month to the resolutely literary Dial. Reasons for the demise were not forthcoming last week from the Dial's "adviser," Scofield Thayer, or from Editress Marianne Moore, or from President James T. Watson Jr. They simply announced that publication would cease after the July issue...
...letters were exchanged for issues, its policies became freedom of speech, release of political prisoners. In 1920 under the leadership of Adviser Thayer, it became a monthly with a program devoted to esoteric odds and ends, good printing, and giving a chance to rare or unknown authors whom Adviser Scofield considered worth while. Some of the Dial's feats and features were: D. H. Lawrence's long short-story, "The Man Who Loved Islands," Arthur Symon's obituary estimate of Thomas Hardy; the first pages of Oswald Spengler's "Decline of the West": The last words...
TIME will tell. LIEUT. L. A. ELLIOTT, U. S. Edgewood Arsenal, Md. Good. But TIME has already used it occasionally. - ED. To Subscriber E. B. Whittlesey of Scofield, Ore., $10. Early in November he submitted the slogan There is no time like the present There is no present like TIME. Said TIME on Nov. 8: "Let other subscribers submit slogans. To that subscriber who, before Dec. 1, produces a better than Subscriber Whittlesey's: $10. Otherwise, the $10 goes to Original Subscriber Whittlesey. - ED." 167 slogans were submitted - of which the above printed ones are specimens...
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