Word: altos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Southern California's track team: a dual meet with Stanford, 74½-to-56½, in which Southern California's two star pole-vaulters, Bill Sefton and Earle Meadows, tied for a new world's record of 14 ft. 8½ in.; at Palo Alto...
...Palo Alto, Calif...
Doubly saluted for keeping up the health standards which twice before had earned them kudos were: Baltimore, Hackensack (N. J.), Newark, Palo Alto (Calif.), Schenectady...
...choice pages the huge province of Burma, nearly seven times the size of England, was detached from India alto gether and set up as a separate British realm. Its ruler was appointed last week by the Emperor, George VI, his choice for Governor of Burma lighting upon Sir Archibald Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Star of India, D. S. O. Also de tached from India and set up last week as a Crown Colony was small, highly strategic Aden, only 80 sq. mi. in area...
...each stride when a galloping horse has all four feet off the ground at once. It took him nine years and cost him $40,000 to win the bet. He hired a photographer, erratic, long-bearded Eadweard Muybridge, to take pictures of horses in motion at his Palo Alto stud farm. The first experiments were all failures. There followed an interlude while Photographer Muybridge was tried and acquitted under unwritten law for the murder of his wife's lover. Meanwhile Governor Stanford became impatient, hired a young engineer named John D. Isaacs who finally arranged a battery of cameras...