Word: woolley
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...which he hoped would give the battles of Marathon and Salamis, so vaingloriously described by Greeks, a different slant. C. A joint expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania, exploring Ur of the Chaldees under the direction of the Museum's veteran Excavator Charles Leonard Woolley, unearthed a temple dedicated to the moon-goddess Nin-Gal. complete with shrines and food preparation chambers. Also discovered was a brick-lined well, sunk by King Ur-Engur (2300 B. C.) and conscientously repaired by later rulers, one of whom imbedded eight tablets in the masonry describing his work...
...headed by Newton D. Baker and including Bernard Mannes Baruch, Thomas William Lament and Owen D. Young. Last week the banded seven sent their presidents West, to dine in St. Louis with friends and alumnae. They went in a distinguished phalanx-Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, Marion Edwards Park, Mary Emma Woolley, Ada Louise Comstock, William Allen Neilson, Henry Noble MacCracken and Ellen Fitz Pendleton, and as dinner speaker they produced Pundit Walter Lippmann. Mr. Lippmann, whose wife Faye Albertson went to Boston University, exclaimed he was "almost ashamed" to be obliged to defend higher education for women, which he called...
Oberlin College (Ohio) Jerome Davis of Yale Divinity School. . D.D. Pianist Ernest Hutcheson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mus. D. Naturalist Herbert Spencer Jennings. . . Sc.D. Actress Edith Wynne Matthison . . . . . Litt.D. James Brown Scott, lawyer, peace-worker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D...
...Matthew S. Sloan, of N. Y. Edison.........1,000 Walter C. Teagle, of Standard Oil of N. J. ...........2,000 O. P. Van Sweringen .............5,000 Albert H. Wiggin............. 8,500 Joseph Wilshire, president Standard Brands, Inc .........50,000 Daniel G. Wing, Boston banker ............2,000 Clarence M. Woolley. of American Radiator...
Elected. Dr. Meta Glass, president of Sweetbriar College (Va). sister of Senator Carter Glass; to be president of the American Association of University Women, succeeding Dr. Mary Emma Woolley of Mt. Holyoke; at the biennial convention; in Minneapolis, Minn...