Word: gales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regents' resolution was occasioned by an offer of $600,000 from the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research at Wisconsin. Without making their self-denial retroactive to previous gifts from the "lobbying" oil interests, the regents refused. Regent-Novelist Zona Gale filled a page in The Nation with their reasons, which boiled down to: the social danger of domination by wealthy donors and civic pride in the fact that Wisconsin stands fifth among state-supported universities in the size of annual appropriations, its income equaling revenue from an endowment of 20 millions...
...forced to three sets before downing E. C. Gale '27. If he can overcome W. T. Smith '26, seeded number eight, he will probably meet R. A. Magowan '27, who yesterday eliminated N. A. Barber IG.B., at 4-6.6 s.6-2...
Class of 1926--E. M. Bailen, S. H. Checkver, G. W. Cottrell Jr., M. C. Fergenson, H. R. Gale, Lester Ginsburg, J. E. Stocker, D. E. Wood, R. S. Wright...
After the death of President Ernest DeWitt Burton late last May, Professors Billings, Tufts, Manly, Gale, Woodward and Laing of the University of Chicago knitted brows with Trustees Harold H. Swift (meats), Martin A. Ryerson (finance), Albert W. Sherer, William Scott Bond, Charles W. Gilkey, Thomas E. Donnelly, Robert L. Scott and Dr. Frank Billings, over the baffling question of Dr. Burton's successor. Every week they met, soon eliminating as unsuitable all prospects on the home campus, casting their eyes afield now upon this capable small-college administrator in the East, now upon that efficient personality...
...Social Politischer Dienst (Berlin). Accurate determination with a special cinema camera had, it was stated, shown that ocean waves in a light breeze were from 2 to 4 yards high (i.e:, above sea level). In a "high sea," waves might rise to 9 yards ; in a "violent gale," to 10 or 12 yards...