Word: alan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disappointed with them for there are not enough pictures of guns and tactical groups. A pacifist will not find enough horror. . . . Here is the camera record of chaos." There is no running text. Editor Stallings' captions are terse, provocative, sometimes sarcastic. He quotes freely from Rupert Brooke, Alan Seeger and Kipling. One could wish for far more detail with each print...
...coherent or rational help in preparing the defense. Col. Donovan asked that the court determine Banker Harriman's mental competence before the trial. He produced six affidavits, one from Mrs. Harriman declaring that Banker Harriman had never been the same since the death of their son Alan in 1928. Afterwards she herself had pernicious anemia, and her overworked husband tended her every night...
Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, N.J.) Juan de la Cierva, Autogiro inventor ... D.E. President Harold F. Pitcairn of Autogiro Co. of America .... D.M.E. Alan Hazeltine, radio neutrodyne inventor .... Sc.D...
Such was the four-masted barque Parma, setting out early last March. In 1931 the Australian writer-adventurer Alan Villiers with a syndicate, bought her, from a Hamburg break-up yard. A onetime German nitrate trader, she was about to become razor blades and sardine cans. A fellow-buyer was the man Villiers calls "the best sailor in the world": Finnish Captain Ruben de Cloux, 48, 35 years in sail, 18 years in the Cape Horn traffic. Captain de Cloux would like to be a sailor on the moon because the moon is smaller than the Earth to sail around...
...meet nightly in the ''Cracker Room" in their main dormitory. No beer is sold. This year the Swarthmore girls voted to disband their sororities, to which 75% belonged. Alumnae protested and the matter is still open. Yet Swarthmore is not all innocence. Two years ago Dean Alan C. Valentine, Rhodesman who is now master of Yale's Pierson College, staged a surprise raid, found liquor in the rooms of two dozen students...