Word: comptons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opposition in the 1,500-meter run at Compton College was not topflight, but Strand's time was. (Like Glenn Cunningham, he races against himself.) He ran, as usual, with both palms up, fingers curled -as though he were holding a glass of water in each hand. At the finish Strand was yards in front, unhurried, and two-tenths of a second off Les MacMitchell's meet record of 3:51.4. He might not run the four-minute mile at the San Antonio A.A.U. championships this month, but U.S. tracksters already regarded him with brooding respect...
...winners of the fellowships are Bernard R. Bowren, Jr. 6G, of Berkeley, Calif., in American Civilization, Hugh H. Chapman, Jr. 4G, of Evansville, Ind., Romance Languages (for the summer of 1946), H. Theodore Dohrman G.Dv., of Compton, Calif., Divinity, and George E. Erickson 5G, of Palmer, Mass., Biology (for the summer...
...Compton Sargent...
President Conant will be the principal speaker at the inauguration this Friday of 1927 Nobel Prize winner Arthur Holly Compton, one of the leading physicists in atomic bomb research, as the ninth chancellor of Washington University. Also expected to attend the installation, which falls on the ninety-third anniversary of the founding of the university, are brothers Karl and Wilson Compton...
...Tongues. St. Laurent was born 63 years ago at Compton, Quebec, near the Vermont border. He is a polished, flawless bilinguist by inheritance: his father was a French Canadian merchant, his mother a first generation Irish Canadian. ("I didn't know at first there were two languages in Canada. I just thought there was one way to talk to my father and another way to talk to my mother...