Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sachs (Penn); third, Finn (Boston College). Time--10 1-5 sec. Third heat--won by Bowen (Pittsburgh); second, Kastler (Penn); third Andrews (Princeton). Time--9 9-10 sec. Fourth heat--won by Harwood (Syracuse); second, Dyer (Stanford); third, MacDonald (Yale). Time--10 sec. Fifth heat--won by Maurer (Southern California); second, Wildermuth (Georgetown); third, Stevens (Dartmouth). Time--10 1-10 sec. Heat for third men (two to go into semifinal)--won by Mason; second, Finn (Boston College). Time...
...yard dash--Three men in each heat qualified for semifinals. First heat--won by Kent (Colgate); second, Kastler (Penn); third, MacDonald (Yale). Time--21 9-10 sec. Second heat--won by Wildermuth (Georgetown); second, Wehner (Southern California); third, Morin (Holy Cross). Time-21 8-10 sec. Third heat--won by Engle (Yale); second, Harwood (Syracuse); third, Mason. Time--22 sec. Fourth heat--won by Dyer (Stanford); second, Sacks (Penn); third, Gill (Yale). Time...
Paul John McCormick of California, U. S. District Judge...
...motors, and in-line water-cooled gasoline motors. Patents, however, still endure on Knight sleeve-valve motors. Hence in the U. S. only Willys-Knight and Steams-Knight as yet may use that type in passenger cars. Charles Y. Knight, sleeve-valve inventor, still lives, richly and quietly, in California (TIME, Sept...
...Herr Fokker went from Germany to Holland, then (1923) to this country, of which he will soon become Mr. Fokker, U. S. citizen. Commander Richard Byrd flew a Fokker to the North Pole and another Fokker across the Atlantic; Lieutenants Maitland and Hegenberger flew a Fokker from California to Hawaii...