Word: calif
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inglewood, Calif...
MARGARET PRIOR Los Angeles, Calif...
...this nice lady who writes so charmingly, so naively of the little girl of Vermont? Her name was Lou Henry when she romped among orange blossoms of Monterey, Calif. Later when a lovely coed, she met an earnest young man who was working his way through Stanford University. They were married, and her name became Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover. She followed her husband to the ends of the earth. In China, in 1900, they lived for six weeks behind a barricade of sugar barrels and sandbags (Boxer Rebellion). Together they translated from medieval Latin the first work ever written...
...Long Beach, Calif., the wife of Trombonist Charles E. Stacy listened at her radio box while far away he broadcast his best trombone solo, "The Sweetest Story Ever Told." The notes were like a lover's last lingering, farewell caress. That is what they were, for he died on the way home, of heart failure...
...twelve feet wide and 20 feet deep in the eternal ice of that summit, and lowered into it instruments extremely sensitive to radiant energy. Their procedure closely paralleled experiments conducted during 1923-25 by Dr. Robert A. Millikan of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics (Pasadena, Calif.), who first buried his instruments at sea level, then flew them far aloft by kites, finally lowering them to a considerable depth in the pure waters of a high-altitude lake.* And their conclusions, announced last week, paralleled Dr. Millikan's: bombarding the earth from the surrounding universe are some hitherto unknown...