Word: dyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the expedition whom McCaleb selected were John N. Dyer of M.I.T. now in charge of field communications. Clay Bailey, United States Navy, Gay C. Rutehison. Texas A and M and Stanley D Pierce '33, an engineering student...
...year-old Peter Christopolus was rewarded for his "model behavior" this summer by getting his picture printed in the Boys' Home magazine, in overalls like the other orphans. The picture came to the attention of one Jean Strengs, French-born proprietor of a Paterson, N. J. dye works. Dyer Strengs was struck by Peter Christopolus' resemblance to his own son, who had been drowned at 17 a year before. He decided to adopt Peter, arranged for a six-week trial after which he might educate him, train him in the dye business, make him his heir. In July...
...demonstrations of affection, again before press cameras, the Strengs soon decided that Peter would not do. They called him "disobedient" and "arrogant." They thought he was too cocky about his sudden good fortune. They said he was sullen and grudging about helping with household tasks. One morning last week Dyer Strengs awakened Peter Christopolus, told him he was to go back to the Boys' Home in Omaha. Later he explained to newshawks : "We gave him his chance and he failed to make the most of it. Too much publicity apparently turned the boy's head." Once more...
...City to the inner bay. Cars were buried in sand. At Salisbury all able-bodied men were drafted to dig a ditch to divert the Wicomico River and save the town. At Scotland Beach where his cottage was washed away Missouri's onetime (1915-33) Representative Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer had to swim 200 yards for his life before he was hauled into a rowboat. At Dover the Delaware State Capitol was badly soaked. The famed du Pont Highway was closed to traffic from Dover to Salisbury when three bridges were swept away...
Freshman players will be A. C. Helmholz, R. W. Gilder G. G. Glidden, J. A. Roberts, G. S. Franklin, A. C. Reggie, L. S. Shaw, G. F. Robertson, R. L. Bentley, J. F. Donovan, and J. R. Short. The Brown Freshmen will be Dyer, Sharp, Mittleman, Rabinovitz, Simonds, and Margolies...