Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diplomat (Sir Auckland Geddes, Ambassador to Washington, 1920-24), one a labor specialist (Harold Butler, former Director of the International Labor Office, Geneva). Five have had long Government experience, six saw active War duty. One makes the paper for English bank notes. One has an inferiority complex. One is stone-deaf, uses a mechanical ear and when seated by some one he dislikes, shuts...
...years ago the Sumerian rulers of Mesopotamia were buried, in big underground chambers, with multitudes of sacrificed servants. The skull and face forms of these old Near Easterners are almost identical with those of living Englishmen. Ancient Egyptian skulls resemble those in 17th-Century London plague pits, in New Stone Age box graves of Switzerland. Science has had much to puzzle over in these resemblances, and many others in the intricately shuffled complex of races, sub-races, types and varieties in Europe's white population...
James P. Derham was trained by his father to head the company, Enos J. to design bodies and Walter to tend to the shop. They do three or four big jobs a month, keep some 30 men busy in their stone and red-brick plant on Lancaster Pike. Most of their orders come from the automobile manufacturers, who get queer specifications from great and eccentric customers. At present the Derhams are designing a big grey limousine for Joseph Stalin, a duplicate in black for President Vincent of Haiti, a town car for Mrs. Henry B. du Pont and 15 open...
...Cambridge, much of the credit will go to McNamara; if Cambridge comes out on the short end, it is more than likely that McNamara will wage a prolonged anti-Harvard campaign, playing on resentment at the University's vast holdings which city tax-collectors cannot touch, as a stepping stone to the Mayor's office...
Born in Copenhagen 54 years ago, Viggo Bird came to the U. S. at 18, graduated from M. I. T., and married on a $2,000-a-year income from Stone & Webster. Slowly his salary rose to $40,000, but debts rose faster. First his wife had a $1,500 operation. Then his son got tuberculosis and Viggo Bird borrowed $9,000 to finance a cure in Switzerland. Just before 1929 his brother lost $30,000 belonging to their mother. Viggo Bird assumed the debt...