Word: fresno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard would not be the nation's premier university were this list not long and impressive. That is to say that the good people of Macon and Fresno would not recognize her as such. One Bruening adds much more to her reputation than fifty conscientious and sympathetic instructors. And speaking quite seriously, it is essential for a university to nurture her reputation in this manner. Public relations are not the least among the worries of a modern college president...
Finally, at 3:03 a. m. Stead called Oakland, asked to be told where the north leg of the Fresno range intersected the northeast leg of the Oakland range...
...wires must be expensively rerouted through a tunnel west of the dam. A long system of canals and transverse ditches will be dug, to carry water not only to Sacramento Valley farmers but far south into the San Joaquin Valley, whence waters have been diverted to thirsty Madera, Fresno, Tulare, Kings and Kern counties...
Only procedure is to treat coccidioidal granuloma like tuberculosis. By 1936, said short, bright-eyed Dr. Dickson, 450 cases of the secondary disease had been reported in San Joaquin Valley, most of them in Tulare, Kern, Kings and Fresno counties. The disease is not contagious and attacks animals as well as men. Why San Joaquin Valley is the centre of coccidioidomycosis, Dr. Dickson could not say. Perhaps the hot dry summers, he suggested, favor the growth and reproduction of the fungus. Certain it is that the disease is not spreading beyond the valley...
...transport left San Francisco with six passengers and a crew of three, headed for Los Angeles. At the rugged Tehachapi Mountains, it met the vanguard of the worst storm the West Coast has seen for 64 years (TIME, March 14). The storm chased it back past Bakersfield, then past Fresno, then swallowed it up. Last week, a young Fresno prospector, H. O. Collier, saw something that glittered as he clambered up near the top of 9,000-ft. Buena Vista in the Sierra Nevadas. It was the wreckage of the plane, smashed to bits but unburned. Strewn along the slope...