Word: clark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convention Van Buren got a majority vote for the Presidential nomination on the first ballot, could not raise it to two-thirds. Tired delegates compromised on Dark Horse James K. Polk. At Baltimore in 1912 the two-thirds rule changed the history of the world when Champ Clark got a majority on eight ballots, finally lost the nomination to Woodrow Wilson...
James M. Arensburg, George Arents, Charles L. Bigelow, Morris B. Blumberg, George F. Bogardus, Paul H. Bonner, Jr., Roswell Brayton, Preston R. Clark, Clayton J. Clawson, Allen W. Clowes, Robert M. Coquillette, Spurgeon H. Cunningham, Frank P. Davidson, Howland Davis Charles B. Ellis, William H. Fain, Jr., Frank C. Farley, Frederic W. Fuller, Jr., William H. Glazier, Frederick D. Grant, Peter B. Greenough, Karl F. Guthe...
...Science's sake one afternoon last fortnight four students at University of Southern California started to stay awake as long, as possible. Psychologist Brant Clark and his coworker, Dr. Neil Warren, wanted to clarify the physiological effects of a long period without sleep. After a day or two, attendants had such a hard time keeping one subject awake that they let him go. The other three started to play "Monopoly." They were so irascible that the psychologists deemed it best to terminate the game. After the young men had stayed awake 54½ hours they gave up, plunged into...
Pending tabulation of the results of his test, Dr. Clark described some of the effects which 54½ sleepless hours had on his students: "The faculty which suffers most ... is vision. The boys just couldn't see clearly, their notions of perspective were bad, their eye movements slow and their judgment of color erratic. Muscular coordination was low, tests of writing, aiming a gun, and hitting a nail on the head showing a great loss of accuracy. But there were periods when the boys seemed to make brief comebacks to alertness, something like 'second wind...
Varsity-stroke, James F. Chace '38; 7, Raymond S. Clark '36 (Captain); 6, John R. Clark '38; 5, Leonard P. Eliel '36; 4, Douglas Erickson '38; 3, Robert S. Wolcott '36; 2, Arthur Beane '36; bow, J. Paul Austin '37; and cox, Edward H. Bennett...