Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...married, became interested in marine motors. A one-room shop with two helpers grew into the Fore River Ship & Engine Co. which employed 4.000 men and built the Navy's first destroyers. He lost control in the depression of 1903. He prospected for gold in Death Valley and Alaska. In his old age he turned to painting, scurried around Europe studying old masters. The first transcontinental telephone conversation in 1915 was between Bell in Manhattan and Watson in San Francisco. The words were familiar, epochal: "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you!" Bell died in 1922. Last week...
During the last two months, the field was thrown open to 8,951 candidates in 630 Federal examination rooms from Balboa Heights, C. Z., to Fort Kent, Me., from Ketchikan, Alaska, to Mayaguez, Puerto Rico...
Prior to a banquet, Mr. Robert M. Belts, a well-known Oregon engineer, came to me and asked me if 1 would re-introduce him to the Prince, for whom he had worked in Alaska, and of course I agreed. As we sat down, Caetani was on my right and on my left was the Mayor of Spokane. Addressing the Ambassador, I said: ''Your Excellency, permit me to introduce Mr. Blank, the Mayor of the city," to which of course Caetani made a gracious but reserved response. Mr. Blank, greatly embarrassed, whispered in my left...
...after all, Harvard University has some small claim to cosmopolitanism. If one searches far enough, he will doubtless find, either in Widenor stacks, along Beacon Street, or in Scollay Square, representatives of nearly every nation, reveling in the bracing New England climate. They come and come, from Alaska, from Turkey, and from 33 places situated alphabetically between these two extremes. Numerically Canada heads the list with 48, and the gradient falls away to Palestino's one lone lorn special student...
...feature speakers of the evening were Charles S. Houston '35, who showed moving pictures of his ascent of Mt. Foraker, a 17,300 foot peak in the Alaska range, and Henry S. Hall '19, who explained and showed photographs of his four attempts to climb Mt. Waddington, a 13,000 foot peak in the Coast Range of British Columbia. The evening was concluded with a brief account by Bradford Washburn '31. President of the club, of the conquest last summer, of Mt. Crillon by a Harvard-Dartmouth expedition under his leadership...