Word: branner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minthorn heard about a university that Senator Leland Stanford was founding in memory of his son and namesake, down in a meadowy place called Palo Alto, near San Francisco. Nephew Herbert went there, immature, shy, curly-headed, precocious at 17 except in English. Professor John Branner helped him become a prodigious geologist. Also, in that first class at Stanford University, Herbert Hoover had his first taste of politics...
Engineer Louis Janin and Miss Lou Henry came into the Hoover picture at about this time-Mr. Janin to hire Herbert Hoover as a stenographer and to let him, almost overnight, acquire an outstanding international reputation as an engineer; Miss Henry to gaze awestruck at Professor Branner's greatest pupil and to accept him a few years later, when he cabled an important question to her from the Australian goldfields, scene of his first...
...Conan Doyle and Dr. Arthur Schnitzler are unequivocally authors, whereas Dr. Joseph Collins and Dr. Richard Cabot make authorship complementary to medicine.* Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur quit medicine to take up the social chores that President Emeritus David Starr Jordan (also a graduate physician) began, and Dr. John Casper Branner carried on until his resignation...