Word: cantons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Other merchandisers of tear gas: Pacific Arms Corp., San Francisco; Certified Burglar Alarm System, Detective Publishing Co. and Lachyrite Corp., Chicago; Manville Mfg. Co., Pontiac, Mich.; Diebold Safe & Lock Co., Canton, Ohio; Lake Erie Chemical Co., Cleveland; Duncan Chemical Co., Manhattan...
Columnist Dorothy Thompson (whose husband Sinclair Lewis got his first honorary degree last year from his alma mater Yale) this year became an LL.D. of Russell Sage College (Troy, N. Y.), an L.H.D. of University of Syracuse and of St. Lawrence University (Canton, N. Y.). Columnist Thompson was the commencement speaker at all three colleges. Abreast with her for first place on the 1937 kudos list was solemn Critic Van Wyck Brooks, whose Pulitzer Prizewinner, The Flowering of New England, brought him Litt.D.'s from Bowdoin, Columbia and Tufts. Vassar's Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay...
...Canton, Ohio, anti-strike sentiment quickened when the chamber of commerce polled 6,465 steel workers by mail. Three clergymen employed to count the returns reported 3,633 votes for returning to work, 216 for continuing the strike, a majority, although 2,516 ballots were cast out as palpable forgeries, not being printed on the same paper or with the same perforations as those mailed...
...tiny Canton Island, near the sunrise end of the shadow path, confused frigate birds came in from the sea when darkness fell. In Peru, at the sunset end, bats flitted around the fast-working scientists. Radio crews of NBC at Canton Island and of CBS in Peru were able to broadcast lyrical descriptions. The sun's corona was almost circular, a form associated with the high sunspot activity currently manifested by the sun. Exulted white-thatched Clyde Fisher of Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium : "This was the most beautiful of four totalities I have observed...
...been prophesying eclipses for 26 years. Dr. Robertson now believes the "X factor" to be a resultant of three irregularity cycles, one of a lunar month, one of eleven to 13 months, the third varying over a long period up to 70 years. According to first reports from Canton Island, Dr. Robertson's time predictions for that spot, allowing for the "X factor," had hit the actual eclipse times on the nose...