Word: elgin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the chapel bell strikes 10 o'clock, and Joe Yardling jumps up from Bryce's "Holy Roman Empire" to realize that his new Elgin watch is apparently ten minutes slow, and that he is exactly ten minutes late to class, it is no less than the complete system of University electric telechron clocks that is to blame...
Committed to the State asylum for the insane at Elgin, Ill., was William Rockne, 19, son of Notre Dame's late Football Coach Knute Kenneth Rockne. His disease: dementia praecox. At Carlton, Saskatchewan, Author John Buchan, First Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada, was crowned with feathers, draped in caribou skin, made a member of the Cree tribe, under the name Okemow Otataowkew ("Teller of Tales...
...Jeweled watches are subdivided into companies making both cases and works and those making cases but importing the works. Gruen and Bulova are the leading importers; Hamilton, Elgin and Waltham, the leading manufacturers...
...TIME, May 25, I noticed a full-page announcement featuring a Yale man ("Yale,'36") who says that wearing an Elgin watch is one of the traditions of his family. As a University of Minnesota man I would like to report on the regrettable lack of family traditions out here in the Middle West. Traditions are much undervalued: even opposed. Not long ago I heard another University of Minnesota man remark, "Can you imagine it-my whole family religiously eats Wheaties every morning!" I considered the remark interesting in that it illustrates the blind resistance of Minnesota...
...Elgin, Ill. last week inmates of the State Hospital for the Insane gazed appreciatively at a newly completed 25-ft. mural showing other inmates weaving cloth. It was paid for with $2,000 of Government money, kept 14 WPArtists busy for four months. Their instructions were to use only the softest shades of primary colors, to "avoid all exciting combinations...