Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government, the Michigan State Police, the Press. One man was the hotel owner, white-haired Fred Wardell, president of Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co. He had furnished the money to exploit the new invention. The other man. who inspected his guests owlishly through horn-rimmed glasses, was the inventor, Glenn W. Watson, onetime salesman. Mr. Watson, new to inventing, had learned about electricity only three years ago while he played with his son's electrical toys...
...Glenn H. Curtiss Airport, N. Y. last week a great crowd of aeronautical men watched what appeared to be a conventional Waco biplane as it came in for a landing. It did not slant down toward the ground and suddenly level off. It floated down slowly, steadily at the same angle, tail high in normal flying attitude. More remarkable, the pilot's white-gloved hands could be seen upraised above his head as the craft touched the ice-coated surface, bounced a few times and was brought to a stop by footbrakes. The plane had landed itself...
...Reverend Mr. Leslie Glenn, Rector of Christ's Church, who recently organized a small group of students interested in the ministry, expressed the view, last night, "that clubs of a similar nature at Harvard University for the purpose of giving students a clear and concise explanation of the professions would fill a great need...
...Reverend Glenn said that few students have sufficient understanding of the professions and have no way of acquiring an adequate knowledge of them. "Informal meetings at which professional men could talk about the opportunities and limitations of his profession, would be of great service to many students; for the deciding of a career is probably the most important event in a college man's life...
...difficulty which the average undergraduate has in choosing a profession in the increasing complexities of modern life is being recognized more than ever before. The institution of the office of Consultant on Careers was a long step toward the solution of this problem, and the plan proposed by Mr. Glenn should be of still further assistance to the student. The formation of informal groups of those interested in various professions to hear them discussed by men prominent in these lines of endeavor, should receive considerable support from those who have not yet planned their futures...