Word: canyons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team for Notre Dame. Assistant Coach Gordon Campbell heard the jokes, took them seriously, suspected Centre Hawkins of disloyalty. Centre Hawkins had had to allow his home to be searched for "papers," had allowed himself to be held in custody by two private detectives in a cottage at Topango Canyon while the search was made. Finding the suspicions unjustified, Coach Howard Jones apologized to Centre Hawkins in the presence of the Southern California football team. This apology did not satisfy the parents of Centre Hawkins. They brought the matter to public attention by demanding an apology from President Rufus...
Ferde Grofe has been Paul Whiteman's Man Friday, anonymously scoring tunes, embroidering them until even some of the sleaziest have taken on symphonic richness. Last week in Chicago a great crowd gave him longaccumulated credit. Paul Whiteman played Ferde Grofe's Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon and the audience shouted approval of a smoothly syncopated sunrise and sunset, a thunderous, climactic canyon storm...
...Vagabond spent yesterday morning in a vain effort to solve the problem of his rooming accommodations for this year. The best location, judged from a physical standpoint, is the pump shack by Appleton Canyon in the Yard. But there the miniature landscape even now is cluttered by a few early Freshmen. One of them asked Mr. Apted, who was loitering around, if he would care to join him in a round of peewee golf; freshmen must band together, you know, we're all Harvard...
...Nevada desert the summer temperature ranges between 100° and 120°. In the diversion tunnels on the canyon floor it averages 10° to 20° higher. Since work began at the dam five men have been killed by accidents, twelve have died from the heat. Workers claimed the water in the tunnels is too hot to drink, while outside they have to drink river water. They complained ventilation is poor in the bunk houses, where they pay $1.50 per day, that some time ago wages for laborers were reduced from...
...wrote was one he concocted while on the Standard staff. A spectacular railroad wreck had, so to speak, fallen in Stone's lap. The only newsman in miles, he strung thousands of words together while the blazing cars of the unlucky train made the night lurid in Hellgate canyon near Missoula. He filed the yarn on the wire. Discovered next day that the Standard office had burned to the ground...