Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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JOHN D'ERRICO Santa Monica, Calif.-I Is there a doctor in the house...
Travel Season. In St. Joseph, Mo., Mrs. Gus Parigoff arrived from California to surprise her father, Lloyd Richardson, who meanwhile journeyed to San Gabriel, Calif, to surprise...
...Grace Wiley had never been afraid, she handled her reptiles patiently and lovingly, filled one room of her Cypress, Calif, home with over a hundred of them: King and Queen, the cobras; Roxy, the nine-foot python; Perky, the water moccasin. They made her hobby, her life's study and her reputation as one of the nation's top herpetologists. Last week she readily agreed to pose for pictures with her newest pet: a five-foot cobra she had just received from India...
...fastest 100 yards ever run by Paddock (9.5). Then he squeezed out a mite more speed and equaled the world's record (9.4), first set by Frank Wykoff,‡ another old U.S.C. hero. Was it possible to pump more speed out of human legs? It was. At Fresno, Calif, this spring, Patton ran his unbelievable 9.3. His archrival, Lloyd La Beach, was only inches behind...
...last phrase refers to the physical universe as seen from the coast range at Carmel, Calif. In the scale of this pure spectacle, at which John Robinson (Robin) Jeffers has been staring in awe since he settled at Carmel in 1914, human lives and the human race itself look infinitely tiny and disgusting to him; having beheld the stars above the sea he has seemed to conclude, for example, that the love of man and woman is nastiness. Critics who inquire how the conclusion follows from the evidence have been referred by the poet to "instinct," i.e., no rational process...