Word: bradford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country home; seven men invited to a shoot by a bachelor host, and five of the guests sit down one evening to a game of poker. Their game is suddenly interrupted when one of the players, Mr. Grant, accuses Major Daviot of cheating. The charge is supported by Captain Bradford, Major Daviot's brother officer...
Bonneville dam is really not one dam but two, situated catercorner to each other on opposite sides of Bradford Island which lies in midstream. It has a single-lift lock which will raise vessels 66 ft., higher than any other single lock in the world. Since it is the only dam in the U. S. (except abandoned 'Quoddy on the opposite side of the U. S.) situated on tidewater, it will enable ocean-going vessels, once channels have been deepened, to go 50 miles farther up the Columbia to The Dalles, and when eight or nine more dams...
Startled at such a rapidly moving glacier, youthful Henry Bradford Washburn, veteran of many Alaskan expeditions and an authority on Alaskan glaciers, reached for a pencil and pad at his desk in the Harvard University Institute of Geographical Exploration. After making quick calculations, he announced...
...John Bradford Bowdithic '37 has been awarded the Richard Glover and Henry Russell Ames Memorial Aid, without stipend, it was announced by the Student Council at its ninth meeting last night. The Student Council, with Secretary George G. Hedblom '37 in the chair, approved the action of the committee in charge of making the award. The statement conferring the honor is as follows...
Although considerably hampered by its hackneyed plot, or rather lack of plot, "More Than a Secretary is a better than average comedy, due principally to the efforts of the amazing Miss Arthur. By virtue of her work in "The Ex-Mrs. Bradford," she acquired the reputation of being Hollywood's premier comedienne, and her laurels are in no danger...