Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sound Practice. In Brawley, Calif., Dr. Benjamin Yellen took over the practice of Dr. George Holleron for the duration...
...Davis and. Palo Alto, Calif., the experiment last week rated four stars. Two hundred clerks, university students and professors worked as gandy dancers (section hands). For eight and a half hours' work they collected $6.40. Said one of them, Veterinary Science Professor Hugh S. Cameron: "Along about Sunday afternoon you know you've been working...
...From Augusta, Me. to Sacramento, Calif. almost all Legislatures had passed resolutions in favor of doing their work speedily and going home. Last week the Indianapolis News heaped scorn on the Indiana Legislature: "With utter fearlessness the Legislature at last is getting around to the business of doing something final and remedial about the bullfrog crisis. In the process of enactment also are war measures dealing with the mussel, the raccoon and the migratory tomcat...
...Applegate, Calif, and high school went Plaintiff Peggy Larue Satterlee. "I think it's horrible," she said. "I knew those women on the jury would acquit him. They sat there and looked at him adoringly just like he was their son or something. . . . Here I am just two days less than 17 years old and I feel like a broken old woman...
...Most spectacular athlete in the U.S. is nonchalant, 27-year-old Cornelius ("Dutch") Warmerdam, a Piedmont, Calif, schoolteacher with a catlike spring in his legs. The world's only 15-ft. pole vaulter, Warmerdam has soared to that height or more 27 times in the past three years, has made fans expect a new record every time he grips bamboo. Last week the Flying Dutchman worked into the groove, nearly reaching the mezzanine with each leap. But the best he could do was 15 ft. 1½ in.-a new Garden record, but 6¼ inches under...