Word: conklin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hill Bachman, W. B. '32 Back 20 180 5.10 Choate Barres, H. '32 End 20 162 5.11 Andover Beane, A. C. '31 Back 19 160 5.11 New Orleans Academy Betner, B. C., Jr. '32 Line 21 176 5.10 Hill Booth, A. J., Jr. '32 Back 21 155 5.6 Milford Conklin, J. H. W. '31 Back 20 165 5.8 Exeter Cruikshank, H. L. '31 Back 22 168 6. Taft Dunn, K. '31 Back 20 188 6.2 Kent Ellis, H. M. '30 Back 24 165 5.10 Exeter Ferris, D. L. '30 Line 21 185 6.2 Hotchkiss Godman...
...issue cropped up hotly before the Senate Committee last week in connection with the carillon purchased in England by John D. Rockefeller Jr. for Manhattan's Park Avenue Baptist Church. The present duty on carillons is 40%. The House bill cut this duty to 20%. William R. Conklin, Rockefeller counsel, urged the elimination of all duty, asserted that the U. S. has no good carillon makers. William R. Meneely of Troy, N. Y., whose ancestors made bells in Revolutionary times, retorted that his firm casts first-rate bells, that Mr. Rockefeller alone was agitating for a reduced tariff...
...Advancement of Science, admit that it is a mere guess. Two States have since passed laws like Tennessee's. Other states ban evolutionary textbooks from the public schools. Therefore, the executive committee of the A.A.A.S. at its spring meeting adopted a resolution, prepared by famed Drs. Edwin Grant Conklin, Samuel Jackson Holmes, Henry Fairfield Osborn, John Campbell Merriam and Robert Andrews Millikun, published in Science, setting forth, "the present status of Evolution" in four points...
...spite of their great salaries many money-hungry cinemactors have ways of making money besides acting. Critic Regina Cannon (New York American) listed the extra-studio businesses of various stars: John Gilbert, Antonio Moreno, Thomas Meighan-financing real estate developments; Mary Pickford- banking; Karl Dane-raising chickens; Chester Conklin-raising turkeys; Bessie Love-dairy farming; Lon Chaney-part-ownership in a plumbing company; Constance Talmadge-manufacturing cold cream; Lew Cody-automobile agency and part-ownership in a barber shop; Conrad Nagel and Jack Holt-stockyards at Fresno, Calif.; Renee Adorée-French restaurant...
...reacting to dramas and pictures that are meant to be frightening. They laugh. Their laughter, of course, is not an expression of humor but simply of nervousness, a way of reminding themselves that it's all make-believe. When an insane murderer fixes his gaze on Chester Conklin's twitching face, they laugh; when a hairy hand comes out of a wall and yanks a beautiful girl into a secret passage, they laugh; they laugh at abduction, poisoning, ghosts. That the squeals of expected, shivery laughter greeted this adaptation of one of Owen Davis' less terrifying plays...