Word: chester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THOMAS RANKIN Chester...
...rest of the show was the smell of tanbark, a display of gay bandanas, a pounding of hoofs, a whooping of cowhands and a continuous schedule of feats of skill and vigor. Among them: an exhibition of trick-roping by 44-year-old Chester Brers who learned some of his stunts from Will Rogers and has been No. 1 U. S. trick-roper so long (20 years) that no competitors were entered against him last week; cowboys trying to throw light Mexican steers, to ride huge, humped, 1,250-lb. Brahma steers,* to rope and hold wild cows long enough...
Besides chairman Jones, members of the committee in charge of the American History program include Chester N. Greenough '98, professor of English, Francis O. Matthiessen, associate professor of History and Literature, Frederick Merk, professor of History, Samuel E. Morison '07, professor of History, Kenneth B. Murdock '16, professor of English, Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History, and Dumas Malone, director of the University Press
They are James P. Kranz Jr., of Nashville, Tennessee, chairman; Charles B. Arendall Jr., Mobile, Alabama; Benjamin C. Chester, Central Falls, Rhode Island; John Corcoran, Pittsburgh; Robert C. Creel, Cambridge; John H. Ferguson, Oklahoma City; Paul Fitting, Nutley, New Jersey; Samuel Gordon, Brooklyn, New York; William P. Gray, Glendale, California; Willard P. Henkelman, Seranton, Pennsylvania; Samuel L. Jashnoff, Far Rockaway, Long Island; Hugh R. Jones, New Hartford, New York; Thomas W. Keesee Jr. Helena, Arkansas; William W. Kirkpatrick, Chappaqua, New York, William H. Pock Jr., Glen Ridge, New Jersey, John O. Rhome, West Allenhurst, New Jersey; and Harold A. Unterberg...
...would seem to laymen that Dr. Rhine has built up an airtight case for the existence of clairvoyance and telepathy. But certain scientists have criticized his mathematics and others his methods. Last week Professor Chester E. Kellogg, Associate Professor of Psychology at McGill University, published in The Scientific Monthly a categorical criticism of the Rhine studies under the ironic title. "New Evidence (?) for 'ExtraSensory Perception...