Word: altos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the first frost, the Zuni, Navajo and Mescalero Apache Indians of New Mexico go out to harvest the little piñion nuts which grow on stubby pines atop the two great mesas, Cerro Alto and Santa Rita, close to the Continental Divide. For the past three years the crop has been scant, but such a yield was promised this year that the Navajos quit hammering silver and weaving blankets in anticipation of selling tons of piñion nuts at 5? to 10? per lb. Last month 1,000 Navajos and 300 Zunis went a-nutting in small...
...been staged at Fenway Park. Permission to use the Stadium, with its larger seating capacity, was granted last April. Saturday will see the Stanford and Dartmouth teams facing each other on Stadium turf. This year's tussle between the two Indian rivals who met last year in Palo Alto will close the football season in the Stadium...
...conclusion of the contest B. V. Kaltenborn '09, who "edits the news" every Sunday evening for the Columbia chain will give a critical analysis of the speeches. The Harvard debaters will speak from the studios of station WNAC in Boston and the Standford team from Palo Alto, California. There will be no judges, the decision being left to the radio audience...
Died. Dr. David Starr Jordan, 80, Chancellor Emeritus of Stanford University; of apoplexy after a long illness of arteriosclerosis and diabetes; in Palo Alto, Calif. Rugged, tall, white-maned, shaggy-mustached, he was Stanford's "Grand Old Man." He had made his influence felt throughout the world: as pacifist, ichthyologist and educator (TIME, June 28). He was chief director of the World Peace Foundation (1910-1914), president of the World's Peace Congress in 1915, vice president of the American Peace Society. He feared and worked to avert the World War, but said later: "Our country...
...died of Roman fever in 1884, aged 16, in Florence, Italy. To perpetuate his memory Senator & Mrs. Stanford had founded a university "free from traditions and precedents, one that will fit men and women for lives of service." The great Stanford horse farm in the wooded hills of Palo Alto, 30 miles "down the peninsula" (southeast) from San Francisco, was to be its site and all the Senator's wealth?some $30.000,000?would go to endow it. Because he wished it to be open to all, with tuition free, the Senator said: "The children of California shall...