Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student at the Glendale Junior College in Glendale, Calif. Recently our English teacher instructed us to make a report on a book review given in one of the better known magazines...
Glendale, Calif...
...four-minute mile, a seven-foot high jump, a 15-foot pole vault were considered as unlikely as a cow jumping over the moon. Year after year U. S. athletes, a dedicated, concentrated and highly competitive lot, have approached nearer & nearer these impossible figures. Last week, at Berkeley, Calif., Pole Vaulter Cornelius Warmerdam of the San Francisco Olympic Club became the first trackman officially to do the "impossible." In a triangular track meet (University of California, Washington State College, San Francisco Olympic Club) he succeeded in clearing the bar at 15 ft.-one inch higher than the world...
Oldest U. S. mine is the New Almaden near Santa Clara, Calif. Opened nearly 100 years ago, New Almaden was a potent factor in California politics, had yielded more than 1,000,000 flasks worth $65-75,000,000 before it closed in 1926. Since then New Almaden has yielded a few small tonnages to short-term lessees, but most of its 100 miles of tunnels have been empty. Last week the great New Almaden was on the point of changing hands...
...informal staff of friends, checked thoroughly, painfully polished in draft after draft. Among her best friends were (and are) Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, publishers of the once-famed Little Review in Greenwich Village. Last Christmas she spent with her mother and her sister, Poet Hildegarde Planner, at Altadena, Calif. Last week she stopped in Manhattan on her way back to Paris...