Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Refusal of the University of Southern California to pay him $10,000 for seven "conferences": not lectures. Tagore is reliably reported to have declined to lecture under any circumstances and to have spurned an offer of $5,000 for the "conferences...
...Mutt Psychology." Just before the vote, California's Senator Hiram Johnson arose, pulled down his waistcoat, rattled off a fast-stepping speech which, beneath the ridicule, epitomized the Senate's opinion in favor of Debentures. His fists moved back and forth characteristically as he conceded the debenture was a "bounty" and asked, "What...
Quite as exciting as the fact that because of the King's illness, this was the first formal Court a British Queen had held alone for 29 years, was the fact that California's Helen Wills, the world's most beautiful tennis champion, was about to be presented. The crowd swarmed like bees about the Rolls-Royce (borrowed) in which Miss Wills's Grecian "poker" face showed, beside her equally statuesque blonde California friend Harriet ("Hatsy") Walker. Unperturbed, while sweating policemen held back the crowds, Miss Wills sketched in a notebook. After a while she pulled...
...Results. The first publication of the scientists' observations will not be known for some days. It will doubtless be years before conclusions are drawn. Only two months ago were published final conclusions on observations of the eclipse in California...
...Aviv, last week, celebrated not only the Passover but also its own 20th birthday. First city of the Zionists, founded on the sand dunes outside of Jaffa, Tel Aviv now resembles a small California town. Two-storied stucco houses line its shrubbed avenues. It has its own theatre, its opera house, about 50 schools. Its population verges on 50,000. Nothing but Hebrew is spoken in Tel Aviv...