Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regular Auto Show. Sixty blocks away at Navy Pier, National Motor Truck Show, Inc. (grumbling that Automobile Manufacturers Association had hogged half of its exhibitors) put on a technical truckman's exhibit of new monsters, eight-wheelers, trucks that do two things at once. Individualist Henry Ford played along with both; until the middle of the week he exhibited at A.M.A., and then he moved his exhibit to Navy Pier and opened again...
Lewis Mum ford, noted critic and author, will give a series of six free, public lectures at Harvard University this month on "The Backgrounds of American Architecture," beginning tomorrow night at New Lecture Hall, at 8 o'clock. The lectures are jointly sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Design and by the Harvard Committee on Extra-curricular Study of American Civilization...
...quickly pump oxygen into his lungs. But it takes several minutes for the skin to show its telltale sign, and even the keenest observers cannot scent death by this crude method until a short time before the end. Last week Dr. Roy Donaldson McClure of Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital described a machine that notes the shadow of death long before death's hue is seen...
...Truman Ford gave the best exhibition of the meet, pole vaulting 11 ft., 6 in. to surpass the old record by two feet. MacKinnon with firsts in both hurdles and a first place tie with Pirnie in the 160 yd. dash was the high scorer of the meet, and broke the records in two of the events. Pirnie also broke the record in the broad jump, jumping...
William H. Cary '21, former assistant dean of the College, who is now with the Federal Housing Commission in Washington, as an expert on education, is working in collaboration with Professor Ford on the course and has praised it highly both as a sociological study and as a preparation for work with the Federal Housing Administration...