Word: ernest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...engines were reversed. Everyone had left his post but Chief Radio Operator Ernest Edwin Dailey. Coolly chewing gum, he sat tapping out the falling wreck's position almost up to the instant it smacked into the waves. Then he jumped, never to be seen again...
...meeting of the Harvard Menorah Society in Phillips Brooks House yesterday afternoon, the following were elected officers for the ensuing year: president, Sol Roland Srole '36; first vice-president, Edgar Ivan Epstein '36; second vice-president, Milton Zelig Paisner '36; treasurer, Ernest Sherman '36; secretary, Joseph David Golden '37; publicity agent, Irving Greenblatt '36; Freshman representative, Martin David Schwartz '38; executive councillor, Charles Benjamin Feibleman...
Minnesota. William H. Jensen of Browns Valley was having his driveway repaired. In a load of gravel dumped out on his road he spied a hand-shaped stone implement and fragments of human bones. He notified Dr. Albert Ernest Jenks of the University of Minnesota who hustled to the scene with six students, probed the gravel pit. Seven weapons were found in all, some of them true Folsom points, mixed with 17 pieces of a badly mashed human skeleton. Dr. Jenks called its one-time owner "Browns Valley Man," put his age at 12,000 years...
...Peoria, Ill., Ernest T. Faulkner sued the man his automobile had run over, for damages for mental shock and nervous disorders...
...Married, Ernest Thompson Seton, 74, author, naturalist; and Mrs. Julia M. Buttree, 45, dean of the College of Indian Wisdom (Santa Fe) of which Mr. Seton is president; in El Paso, Tex. Last fortnight Mr. Seton was divorced by Mrs. Grace Gallatin Seton, whom he married...