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...another SAC agenda item, N. Van Taylor '95-'96, Randall A. Fine '96 and Greg F. Corbet '96 suggested establishing a summer council delegation. The plan tentatively would establish a five-person unpaid council delegation to represent the student body during the summer...

Author: By Nicholas A. Stoller, | Title: Committee Passes Ethics Resolution | 11/15/1994 | See Source »

Seven other sulfur vents mustardize the air above the village of, hah!, Upper Galway. A two-mile hike leads to the Great Alp Waterfalls, a deafening, 90-ft. pour that barefoot Guide Jim Corbet acknowledges is "plenty strong." Corbet's rates ($6 round trip), like taxi fares, are set by the government. Not much else is regulated except the sale of land; this has been planned so that outsiders who build homes will not find themselves in white ghettos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Still Pristine Caribbean | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

Leader of the four was blond, slight Jake Breitenbach, 24, a guide at Wyoming's Petzoldt-Exum School of American Mountaineering. Like Jake, the others were young, but experienced beyond their years in their perilous art: Ski Instructors Pete Sinclair, 23, and Barry Corbet, 22; Math Teacher Bill Buckingham, 22, a member of the American Alpine Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Great One | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...Thanks for the privilege of selecting winner of Harvard-Yale game. Unfortunately, I am worse selector of football games than Jim Corbet was of boxing matches. I wish I knew which team will win, then I could make one of the coaches a great deal happier during the week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hub, N. Y. Scribes Call Crimson Win | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...River to beyond the Cimarron reported a miracle. Instead of the forecast five or six bushels an acre, the marginal fields were yielding 16 and up. In the good fields, one farm produced 52 bushels an acre, another 75. Fearing that no one would believe him, Harry Corbet of Alfalfa County got the State Board of Agriculture to certify that his four acres of bottom land had yielded a whopping 83 bushels an acre. With 80% of the crop cut, Oklahomans joyfully boosted their estimates to 88 million bushels, hoped to do even better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Miracle Crop | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

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