Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President F. C. Southworth, of Meadville Theological School, Chicago, will deliver an address on "Rammohun Roy, a Pioneer in the Field of Comparative Religion." An alumni luncheon will be served in the Farrar Room at 1 o'clock. Professor R. C. Brooks, Professor of Religion in Pomona College, Claremont, California, and Lewis Wallis, secretary of the Joseph Fels Foundation, will make addresses in the afternoon...
Edna May Wilbur, schoolteacher, daughter of Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur, was taking a hike with a girl companion in Yosemite Valley, California. They were having a good time, throwing snowballs and leaping down a rocky trail, until they found themselves on a ledge from which it was impossible to descend and dangerous to retrace their trail up the valley. It was midnight before a party of five rangers came to their rescue, hauled them up 100 feet with ropes...
Five thousand ports of shelter are now available for American airmen. The Department of Commerce last week listed 1,075 airports and nearly 4,000 other fields adequate for landing. California leads the nation with 115 air fields, Texas has 90, and Pennsylvania...
...kept by the Vicar of Stratford-on-Avon from 1629-81, and large prices for several other volumes. Whether he had an immediate purchaser in mind, or not, it was impossible to determine. A year ago people would have said that he was buying for Henry Edwards Huntington, rich California collector; last week Dr. Rosenbach was probably bidding for his own firm. After offering Alice to the British Museum, Dr. Rosenbach added ?1,000 to the national fund for buying it from...
...such a research been made in the past, there would indeed have been many a strange brace of simultaneous children for scientists to study. Doubtless the savants of California wished that they could include, among their specimens...