Word: bullocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spent his life among the savages of the interior, and who is planning a search in those parts for a French deserter, wanted by the authorities. Together Perken and Claude find the Royal Way, eventually discover a temple with valuable bas-reliefs, which they hack off, load on their bullock-carts. Then they begin the slow fight through the jungle back to safety and fortune. First their drivers desert. Then they fall into the hands of the savage Mois. In the village where they are held captive Perken finds the French deserter he is looking for-blinded and chained...
Three other professors will also retire September 1. Milton J. Rosenan, resigning as Charles Wilder Professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, organized quarantine units in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. The George F. Baker professorship of Economics will be vacated by Charles J. Bullock...
...have always loved poetry. I have deplored its decline in this country. . . . Numbers of my friends felt the same way. We decided to do something about it." By way of doing something about it, Mrs, Hugh Bullock, daughter-in-law of Investment Banker Calvin Bullock, announced in Manhattan the birth of the Academy of American Poets. Prime function of the Academy, as soon as Founder Bullock & friends can raise a fat endowment, will be to patronize eight or ten lucky U. S. poets by annual stipends of $5,000 apiece. No poet herself but a rich and comely young socialite...
Officers of the Committee this year are Charles J. Bullock, Chairman, Professor of Economics; William S. Ferguson, Professor of Ancient and Modern History; Edwin F. Gay, Professor of Economics, History; Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Professor of Government; and Pitirim A. Sorokin, Professor of Sociology. Mrs. Elizabeth W. Gilboy is Secretary of the Committee and is in charge of he statistical laboratory...
...Mary Peak in the Himalayas. The message said that Professor Dyhrenfurth's wife Hettie accompanied the others to the top, surpassing the women's mountain climbing record (23,300 ft. up Pinnacle Peak in the Eastern Karakorum Range) established 18 years ago by the late Mrs. Fannie Bullock Workman of Worcester, Mass...