Word: altos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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West: Stanford v. Oregon State at Palo Alto; Southern California v. Occidental at Los Angeles; California (Southern Branch) v. California Tech at Pasadena...
...Three visitors were received at the White House with true California hospitality. Two came from Palo Alto (country seat of the Hoovers) with an introduction from D. C. Kok, a fellow-townsman. Their names were respectively Southboro Sunny and Southboro Markham, children of International Champion Southboro Savanna, English setter. The third visitor came without a card. His ancestry and antecedents were a mystery, but he was a handsome Eskimo sled...
Died. Thorstein B. Veblen, 72, of Menlo Park, Cal., social theorist (Theory of the Leisure Class [1899], An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of its Perpetuation [1917]); uncle of Princeton's Oswald Veblen, mathematician; in Palo Alto...
Anyone who ever saw the Hoover home at Palo Alto or on S Street knows Mrs. Hoover's fondness for verandas and terraces. Back of the White House, not far from her husband's medicine-ball-ground, Mrs. Hoover has had laid out a flagstoned retreat among the trees, with rustic chairs against a shrubbery background. Nearby a special flowerbed has been turned, prepared and planted. Mrs. Hoover supervises the gardener but seldom trowels herself...
...composition must be written in four voices, soprano, alto, tenor, and bass, for chorus, with or without solo voices, and with organ or piano accompaniment. The time required for its performance must not exceed six minutes...