Word: burbanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before Luther Burbank died (April 11, 1926) he publicly expressed doubt about his personal immortality. He was more hopeful about the future of his experiments. Very carefully he labeled his seeds, left record of his problems. Two old U. S. concerns?W. Atlee Burpee Co. (seeds) of Philadelphia and Stark Brothers (fruit trees and shrubs) of Louisiana, Mo. will work in their separate fields to give Burbank's work the immortality self-denied to Burbank...
...Major Doolittle had broken the transcontinental record made by Captain Frank Monroe Hawks a year ago by 1 hr. 8 min. and 53 sec. He drank several glasses of water, hopped back to Cleveland where his previous stop had made him winner of the Bendix trophy race from Burbank, Calif...
...pound class: R. D. Tucker '34; 126-pound class: Harold Frankel '34; 135-pound class: E. W. Chard '34; 145-pound class: J. U. White '34; 155-pound class: undetermined; 165-pound class: C. B. Burbank '34; 175-pound class: R. G. Ames '34; unlimited class: Gridley Barrows...
Four men who hope some day to flit from planet to planet in rocket planes were last week making preparations to leave the earth. Inventor Maurice Poirer of Burbank, Calif., fired a miniature moon-plane from the top of a mountain, watched it crash to the bottom of San Francisquito Canyon. In Italy a 132-lb. rocket designed by another U. S. rocketeer, Dr. Darwin O. Lyon, exploded, seriously injured four mechanics. In Vienna, the Meteorological Institute of Urania heard Professor Hermann Oberth tell how he hoped to reach Mars or Jupiter within 15 years. In Manhattan the Interplanetary Society...
Freshman--118-pound, R. D. Tucker '34, by decision; 126-pound, Harold Frankel '34, by decision; 135-pound class, E. W. Chard '34, by a fall; 145-pound, J. U. White '34, by a fall; 155-pound class, Stanton Whitney, Jr. '34, by a fall; 165-pound, C. B. Burbank, unopposed; 175-pound, R. G. Ames '34, by a fall; unlimited, Gridley Barrows '34, by a fall...