Harriman Synonyms

United States financier who negotiated a treaty with the Soviet Union banning tests of nuclear weapons (1891-1986)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Averell Harriman
  2. William Averell Harriman
United States railway tycoon (1848-1909)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. E. H. Harriman
  2. edward henry harriman

Harriman Sentence Examples

  • Harriman died he exercised direct authority over more than 50,000 m.

  • In 1823 extensive explorations of the Minnesota and Red River valleys were conducted by Major Stephen Harriman Long (1784-1864), and subsequently (1834-1836) knowledge of the region was extended by the investigations of the artist George Catlin (1796-1872), the topographer George William Featherstonhaugh (1780-1866), and the geologist Jean Nicholas Nicollett (1786-1843).

  • The Harriman expedition collected in two months 1000 species of insects, of which 344 species (and 6 genera) were new to science.

  • The timber resources of Alaska are untouched 2 280 species of mosses proper, of which 46 were new to science, and 16 varieties of peat moss (Sphagnum) were listed by the Harriman expedition; and 74 species or varieties of ferns.

  • In this respect he was assisted by his friendship with Mr Stuyvesant Fish, who, on becoming vice-president of the Illinois Central in 1883, brought Harriman upon the directorate, and in 1887, being then president, made Harriman vice-president; twenty years later it was Harriman who dominated the finance of the Illinois Central, and Fish, having become his opponent, was dropped from the board.

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