Word: californias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exhibitionism, rampant in many of the denizens of Southern California, sometimes seems to be part of the very air and soil. The warm earth that produces the biggest trees, the most abundant fruits in the U. S., can also shake as it did in 1933. The mild and sunny climate is, like a serenely lovely movie star, also capable of temperamental fits. Any disturbances are naturally more horrifying in what seems in times of calm to be a terrestrial paradise, but last week the capital of Southern California had a climactic climatic experience that would have been shocking even...
Amazing in a city whose annual rain fall is 15.2 in., a steady, soaking rain fell in Southern California, recording eleven inches in five days. As unprepared for such an event as Los Angeles' citizens, Los Angeles' terrain failed to absorb the water. From the San Bernardino hills behind the city, the mountains behind the hills, it sluiced down across the narrow coastal plain on which the city and its scattered suburbs sprawl over 482 square miles. Three days of storm filled the shallow arroyos which are dry most of the year; four sent the water pouring over...
Skip's own athletic record is quite impressive. He won his Varsity letter in football, basketball, and lacrosse for three years at Penn State. In 1930, his last year, he started on the All-East grid team which played in California...
...Chicago; Austin followship to Stanley H. Boggs of Mentone, Indiana; James Savage scholarship to Aouny W. Dejany of Jerusalem, Palestine; Gorham Thomas scholarships to John A. Bovey, Jr., '35, of Minneapolis, Minnesota and Edwin L. Goldberg of Worcester; University fellowships to Jesse F. King '37, of Ojai, California, Fred F. Plimpton, '36, of Worcester, and Robert W. Rogers, '37, of Detroit...
With water damaging Los Angeles to the extent of three million and devestating much Southern California life and property, it is easy to think that the series of floods in America constitute a westward movement. Although little truth lies in certain movie heroes became real for a day, ob-the report that the migration was paralyzed when viously the wetting Hollywood got was the biggest spectacle since De Mille threw Christians to the lions. Whether this trend will move across the Pacific next winter and submerge all nice Japanese, no one knows. If such a thing happens, the United States...