Word: brigham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This Is The Place." In Utah last week there was another frontier show commemorating not broncos and steers but covered wagons and the arrival of Brigham Young with his 148 Mormon pioneers in Salt Lake valley in 1847. Under a searing sun which killed one man, dropped a score of others, a three-hour historical parade filed through the streets of Salt Lake City. Queen of the celebration was Margaret Young, 20, a great-great-granddaughter of old Brigham through the line of eldest sons.* On her float which won first prize in the parade, Miss Young, garbed...
...witnessed by 20,000 in the stadium of the University of Utah where Miss Young is a junior. Here she emerged from a hive as the Queen Bee of Deseret (the honey bee of the Book of Mormon, symbol of industry). Other features of the pageant included Indian dances, Brigham Young's declaration "This is the place!" as he led his followers down into the valley, the seagulls which ate the crickets and saved the settlers' first crop, the driving of the gold spike at Promontory Point marking the juncture of the first transcontinental railroad...
Francis Gorham Brigham, chief of staff at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston Sc.D...
Because the late Dr. William T. Brigham, director of physical education at Harvard University, took measurements of some 2,000 Harvard students between 1870 and 1880, it has been possible by measuring later students to discover a distinct change in size, an evolutionary trend. Last week Gordon Townsend Bowles, graduate anthropology student, revealed results of his study of measurements of Harvard men, including figures for 400 pairs of fathers and sons-first such comparison thus to be made. Present day Harvard men. the figures show, are on the average eight pounds heavier than their fathers were. Their average height...
...inscription on the marker: "Brigham Young, Born on This Spot 1801, a Man of Much Courage and Superb Equipment...