Word: californians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind, while still definitely solemn, had been improved by the tranquillity of his surroundings, his gardens, the view from his window of the quiet Coast Range and placid San Francisco Bay. But Herbert Hoover had not returned to Palo Alto to dodder his days away. Like many another sentient Californian, he had felt the restrictions of the Golden State's isolation, and to keep in touch with the rest of the nation he had evolved a comprehensive, businesslike system which now keeps two stenographers and a pair of secretaries busy. Mrs. Dare Starck McMullin, an old friend...
Extraordinary was the call because many a Californian is currently worrying himself into sick jitters over the Tom Mooney trial, the "Red Network," the San Francisco Industrial Association's secret dossiers on radicals, above all over what was first called the September and now the October "showdown on the waterfront''-the threatened recrudescence of last year's longshoremen's strike (TIME, June...
This method of proving to the Varsity that it is as bad as the coaches say it is has been used by fore, but never with such fine Californian touches as this tower. Beginning with this week movies of the scrimmages will be taken throughout the season. These movies will be shown to the Varsity, and the flaws revealed will be duly commented on by Messrs, Harlow...
...they seem able to understand: just so this matter can be put straight. We are not too enthusiastic about the University, but there are very few movies we enjoy and we believe that Kipling was almost right: south is south, but by God, north is also north. --Daily Californian...
...younger Budge, not yet 18, won the California Championship for men. A diffident, stringy, surprisingly agile youth, he appeared in major Eastern tournaments the next year, impressed critics with a sounder repertory of strokes and more tennis intuition than any of his contemporaries. Last spring, he and his fellow Californian, Gene Mako, were named for the Davis Cup team more to give them competitive seasoning than because anyone actually expected them to help bring back the Cup. As soon as he reached England, Budge made it clear that he not only deserved a real place on the team but that...