Word: burbanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Daniel E. Burbank, Jr. '37 also beat A. D. Noble in three straight as George B. Blake '39 trounced Dr. E. J. Sawyer in the same manner...
...other hand, History 1 and Government 1 both return students' blue books shortly after the second semester starts. Economics A, under the guidance of Harold H. Burbank, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, pursued a unique policy. In this latter course, Professor Burbank goes over a large sample of the books after the grades have been returned, as a means of checking the work of both the students and the faculty section...
...made the world's greatest long-distance speed flight, set a new transcontinental record of 7 hr., 28 min., 25 sec. What set secretive Flyer Hughes in motion again was a rumor that someone was about to take a crack at his transcontinental record. Hustling out to Burbank from his home in Los Angeles after midnight, he rolled out his world-record racer, recently re-streamlined and given a 1,100-h.p. Twin Wasp Jr. so powerful that mechanics called the plane "a big engine with a saddle." At 2:14 a. m. he climbed into the "saddle," said...
Members of the initial staff have all been chosen from the Harvard faculty. They include Howard L. Bevis, William Ziegler Professor of Government and Law; John D. Black, Henry Lee Professor of Economics; Harold H. Burbank, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy; Carl J. Friedrich, associate professor of Government; Erwin N. Griswold, professor of Law; Arthur N. Holcombe, '06, professor of Government; Nathan Isaacs, professor of Business Law; Ward Shepard, '10, director of the Harvard Forest; Sumner H. Slichter, professor of Business Economics; John H. Williams, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy; and Edwin B. Wilson, '99, professor...
Inside there had been no warning, but the ten passengers were strapped to their seats ready for the landing at Burbank. As Passenger Arthur Robinson recalled: "Suddenly the plane began to drop-drop. Then there was a terrible crash. My seat belt kept me in my seat. I didn't lose consciousness, but my leg and side hurt. I guess I was about the only one that wasn't knocked out." Passenger Robinson set off alone down the snow-spattered mountain, managed to stagger four miles to the Olive View Sanitarium despite a broken ankle. Inmates there...