In 1866, 35 year old Joseph White Sprague ( 1831-1900 ) was asked by the stockholders to take over management of the bankrupt company.

It remained privately owned until August 25, 1931 when the Board of Incorporators, a group of 39 businessmen, purchased Ferris Institute from the old stockholders and selected a board of trustees from their number to govern the school.

On 24 December 1895 Mrs Bloomfield Moore said that due to the position taken by the managers of the old Keely Motor Company at the annual meeting, and the delay on the part of the stockholders in accepting his proposition for a reorganization, Keely had decided not to take out any patents on his inventions, and would instead adopt a royalty system in dealing with his inventions commercially.

The UAC is refounded under completely new management ( the old trustees and stockholders were all dead anyway ) and aims at developing tools that would prevent demonic invasions.

Only, they carefully substituted old country folk dances for the Virginia Reels and square dances that were so popular among more worldly trains in the great westward migration.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

Indeed, the old Jeffersonians were far more atune to the Hamilton-oriented Whigs than they were to the Jacksonian Democrats.

There were fences in the old days when we were children.

One is that they were established, or gained eminence, under pressure provided by these same immigrants, from whom the old families wished to segregate their children.

His reading ranged from Agatha Christie to The Book Of Job and he had an insatiable interest in his fellow-creatures, while his letters were full of gossip about new politicians and old men of letters with whom he had been intimately thrown six decades before.

However, Biblical scholars frequently attested to its numerous inaccuracies, as old manuscripts were uncovered and scholarship advanced.

How old do you have to be to remember when Americans, especially children, were encouraged to be polite??

The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.

Now, if I were you I would just plan to repair the old church so it would last for five or ten years.

Accounts were garbled at the telegraph office when they sent old George down to Parkersburg for the news.

`` All dey know down dere is it were at Manassas Junction and it were a big fight '', the old man told them.

His eyes were old and they never saw well, but heated with whisky they'd glare at my noise, growing red and raising up his rage.

They were an old fat couple ( as Linda Kay described them to herself ), a thick middle-aged man, and a girl about ten or twelve.

They were further stripped of old wive's tales by seeing the slender, lovely Russian girls performing feats requiring tremendous strength and with not one bulging muscle.

What you were looking for ( unless you make a hobby of collecting old tennis rackets and fly screens ) eludes me, but to judge from phonograph records scattered about a fumed-oak Victrola.

The `` leapfrog '' was a phenomenon of the railroad and the steam turbine, and the time when the belts of residence surrounding the old factory area were not yet blighted.

In many cases that statement -- `` We break even on our downtown operation and make money on our branches '' -- would be turned around if the cost analysis were recalculated on terms less prejudicial to the old store.

This last was probably not in Brumidi's palette, but was needed to take the chill, bluish look off the new work next to the old, where softening effects of time were seen, even after thorough cleaning.

An imaginative storyteller, Pimen takes on the character he describes, as if he were experiencing the old shepherd's blindness and miraculous cure.

Shingles were cured by gentian, an old drug, used in combinations.

At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.

`` The trouble with you '', old man Arthur began, and then checked himself.

Behind him on the steps of the little office sat old man Arthur ; ;

The Sikh sowars of the Frontier Force cavalry, led by Captain Arthur Sandeman of The Central India Horse ( 21st King George V's Own Horse ), charged in the old style with sabres and most were killed.

The two were married by proxy on 19 May 1499 and corresponded in Latin until Arthur turned fifteen, when it was decided that they were old enough to be married.

" Churchill – who was himself only thirty-eight years old in 1912 – took to him immediately and he was appointed Private Naval Secretary to the First Lord against the advice of First Sea Lord Sir Arthur Wilson.

Arthur and his men learn that Mabon was stolen from his mother's arms when he was three nights old, and question the world's oldest and wisest animals about his whereabouts, until they are led to the salmon of Llyn Llyw, the oldest animal of them all.

The headmaster had suggested " my old pupil, Arthur John Evans – a remarkably able young man.

* 1911 – Arthur Holmes uses radioactivity to date rocks, the oldest being 1. 6 billion years old

She was the mother of Mabon, who bears her name as " Mabon ap Modron " (" Mabon, Son of Modron ") and who was stolen away from her when he was three days old and later rescued by King Arthur.

Mrs. L. S. Smith, one of the " few surviving members " of the first graduating class ( 1886 ), spoke of her memories of the old school, a talk that was followed by a musical presentation and a toast given by the future governor of Pennsylvania, Arthur James.

Comden and Green provided the story and screenplay ; the songs were old 1920s hits by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown.

At the wedding feast, Arthur refuses to pay the customary tribute to the Lords from Rome, declaring, “ The old order changeth, yielding place to new .”

The women's analysis of Zed's mental images earlier had revealed that in the ruins of the old world Arthur Frayn first encouraged Zed to learn to read, then leading him to the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

However, Hughes was deemed too old and too frail to be a wartime Prime Minister, and he was forced to yield the leadership of the UAP-Country Coalition -- and the Prime Ministership -- to Country Party leader Arthur Fadden.

This met opposition from most of Curtin's old friends on the left, and from many of his colleagues, led by Arthur Calwell.

* Richard officially proclaimed his nephew Arthur of Brittany, son of Geoffrey, as his heir, and Tancred promised to marry one of his daughters to Arthur when he came of age ( Arthur was four years old at the time ).

They praised the cast, particularly Kenneth More's Arthur and Le Mesurier's Gawain, which they said are " rather touchingly portrayed as friends who have grown old together ".

Fleming uses blackmail, telling Kirkland an old violation of lawyer-client confidentiality will be reviewed by the ethics committee and Arthur likely will be disbarred if he refuses to represent Fleming.

When Arthur was two years old, a marriage with their youngest daughter, Catherine of Aragon was arranged for him as part of the Treaty of Medina del Campo.

When Arthur was 14 or 15 years old, Thomas Linacre ( or Lynaker ) began to teach him.

A precocious talent like Arthur Rimbaud, his first poems were published in Montreal when he was 16 years old.

Arthur was only twelve years old at the time and much under the influence of the French king.