Word: carriere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author. California-born (1900), big, blond, blue-eyed, slow-spoken John Ernest Steinbeck has been a farm hand, hod carrier, caretaker, chemist and painter's apprentice, itinerant newspaperman. At Stanford University off & on for six years, he treated it as a sort of public library where he read only what took his fancy: physics, biology, philosophy, history. Indifferent to most fiction, he thinks Thackeray passable, cannot stomach Proust because he "wrote his sickness, and I don't like sick writing." He is dead set against publicity, photographs, speeches, believes "they do you damage." Now living in Los Gatos...
Last week Naval Cadet Pilot William R. Staggs, a black-browed, 25-year-old six footer attached to the aircraft carrier U. S. 5. Ranger off Coronado, Calif., exchanged telegrams thrice with Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, chief of the Bureau of Navigation in Washington. Their substance: Might he resign? No. Might he marry? No. Might he have 30 days leave...
Vice President Carrier Corp...
Near Holmquist, S. D., more than 50 residents of a rural mail route took down their mailboxes, causing service to be suspended. They were protesting the appointment of Tom Coin as carrier. He does not live in the post office district to which he has been appointed...
After a preliminary examination the patient goes into the hands of Mayo specialists. Their reports go into the big brown envelope and then, by mechanical carrier systems, to the original consultant. The patient is then sent home, to his family doctor, or to one of the hospitals in Rochester, as he prefers. No surgery or treatment takes place in the Clinic building...