Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grace Adams East of Berkeley, Calif, is a sure mistress of the trumpet, which she first took up to develop breath control when she thought seriously of becoming a singer. She proved her feeling for tone last week with Schubert's Du bist die Ruh' and the Ave Maria, her facility at triple-tonguing with Rimsky-Korsakoy's Hymn to the Sun, her physical stamina when at the end of her program she played three encores...
...Benet resigned as Hotchkiss managing director before he left, but his permanent successor has not yet been named. The company's most profitable product is its machine gun, invented by Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss about the same time Maxim and Catling were devising their early weapons. The present Hotchkiss is a magnificent piece of engineering capable of 600 shots per minute. Other arms are manufactured and also automobiles, but the machine gun is the product that really enabled Hotchkiss & Cie. to earn as much as 23,500,000 francs in the late 1920's. Last year's report...
Donald W. Meiklejohn 3G of Berkeley, California, has been awarded the Edwin DeT. Bechtel Prize of $100 in the annual philosophical easy competition open to graduate students in Philosophy...
...University of California resentment against compulsory R. 0. T. C. bubbled up embarrassingly while the University was solemnly holding its annual Charter Day Exercises on the Berkeley campus. Armed with a plebiscite in which 70% of the students voted for voluntary rather than compulsory R. O. T. C. drill, an undergraduate delegation marched before the Board of Regents to debate the point. Twenty minutes after the hearing closed the Board issued a neatly typed announcement that its hands were tied by the terms of the University trust, that in any case compulsory R. O. T. C. training was "a sound...
Died. William Frederic Badé, 63 famed Biblical scholar and archeologist who, by studying the Old Testament, dis covered the lost city of Mizpah ir Palestine in 1926; of a paralytic stroke in Berkeley, Calif...