Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Onetime Indianapolis Speedway Driver Cliff Bergere drove a 15-block course in Colorado Springs, Colo., carefully adhering to traffic rules, finished in 9 minutes and 35.1 seconds. Then, with police permission, he went around again at illegal speeds; he broke 52 traffic rules but, he said, was able to cut only 3.9 seconds off his previous mark...
These inscriptions were the "Rosetta Stone of Western Asia" which enabled scholars to decipher Babylonian and the other cuneiform languages of ancient Mesopotamia. About 100 years ago, philologists dangled from the cliff to copy part of the inscriptions; they tried it again in 1904. But much was missed or garbled, and the inscriptions are too inaccessible to be photographed effectively. The Cameron party will make accurate copies by pressing a rubber compound against the carvings. Orientalists all over the world are eagerly awaiting the results...
...Cliff Campbell was a young Negro from Washington, D.C., a onetime Pullman porter and redcap, whom the depression had sidetracked from architecture into schoolteaching. In 1942, when war industries were begging for skilled workers, the Chicago school board looked around for a man who could perk up down-in-the-mouth Dunbar. The principal at Wendell Phillips High School, where Campbell was dean of boys, gave him a resounding recommendation: "An artist in human relations...
Last month, after six years on the job, 43-year-old Cliff Campbell was picked by the U.S. Office of Education's magazine School Life as the answer to a big question: "What Are Good Teachers Like?" And last week, as Dunbar was closing down for a month's summer vacation, 105 of its 118 graduates paid Director Campbell a tribute he liked even better: they got good jobs...
Skills First. Chicago School Superintendent Herold C. Hunt, who thinks Campbell and Dunbar are "amazing," has promised them a new building within three years. Meanwhile overcrowded Dunbar, built to handle only 375 students, makes do with a Hooverville of temporary wooden buildings-and three shifts. Cliff Campbell is the first to arrive every day (by 7:30 a.m.) and the last to leave (after 10 p.m.). Offered better-paying jobs in their trades or at other schools, many of Campbell's teachers have refused...