Word: boulder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which Colorado U., traveling 3,000 miles to meet the University of Hawaii, bowed to defeat 13 to 0. . . . Hawaii scored twice in the - first half on an end run and a pass, spent the third quarter fighting off threatening short passes, hurled with deadly accuracy by Chilson, flashy Boulder half, and resumed the offensive in the fourth quarter. The work of Hawaii's line stood out, especially that of Jim Cruickshank, rated by all who have seen him as the best centre on the Pacific coast...
Died. Sir Archibald Geikie, 88, famed geologist, onetime President of the Royal Society, the London Geological Society, onetime Director General of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom; at Haslemere, England. He gained fame at 23 with a book, The Story of a Boulder...
Between this boulder and the river is the place where Benedict Arnold first met Major John André, Adjutant General of the British Army, to plan for the surrender of West Point to the British. Major André" landed from the Vulture the evening of Sept. 21, 1780. Early the following morning the conspirators repaired to the home of Joshua H. Smith, about three miles to the north, where Arnold finally agreed to surrender West Point for £10,000 and a commission in the British Army. From the Smith house André" attempted to return to the British lines. He was captured...
...tons of rock were lifted in one explosion which cut off some trees 18 inches thick that grew farther down the mountain. The cliff on which the work was done was very steep and rose for 400 feet on the side of the mountain. One large boulder 40 feet long and 10 feet wide was found some distance on occasion and smaller fragments from the block clipped off an oak tree two feet in diameter...
...Arthur R. Davis of Middlebury, Vt. (chemistry); Jose M. Hernandez of Norman, Okia, (Romance languages); Arthur R. Knipp 1G., of Baltimore (physics); Robert R. La Follette of Terra Haute, Ind. (history); William T. MacCreadie of Northfield, Vt. (mathematics); Charles M. McCurry of Georgetown, Ky. (English); Howard B. Poole of Boulder, Colo (Romance languages); and Ernest E. Stanford of Cleveland, Ohio (botany...