Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...express my pleasure in once more finding Richard Harrison's ''news maps" in TIME, after what I feared might be a permanent absence? I rate them as one of the most interesting features of the magazine and clip them religiously. A great deal of information is compressed into a small space in Harrison's maps; I remember particularly: "Italy in Abyssinia since 1882," in LETTERS, and "Manhattan's Black City" and ''Baltic Crisis," in TIME. 'Mediterranean Maneuver" and "Memel and Nazis" keep me hoping that Harrison will long continue...
...ground trembled as with palsy. In ten days, 327 shocks of varying potency burst store windows, extinguished lights, crumpled a wall of Intermountain Union College's gymnasium, destroyed a National Biscuit warehouse, put to flight 150 bedridden patients in the Government's hospital at nearby Fort Harrison. When two people were killed, more than 40 injured, the population fled in a panic from Montana's capital, tented outside of town or slept in automobiles along open highways. To add to their fright and misery, snow came down...
...story, organized an emergency hospital, got Publisher Hearst to send relief trains. Another time, disguised as a Salvation Army lass, she visited the "lowest dives" of the Barbary Coast, wrote a stirring series on vice. She covered the Thaw murder trial, interviewed everyone from Sir Henry Irving to President Harrison, visited the leper colony at Molokai. When Mr. Hearst's mother died in 1919, "Annie Laurie" wrote the official press obituary, later turned out a 54,000-word biography of Phoebe Apperson Hearst in twelve days...
...Stewart Harrison Webster, of Los Angles, Calif., appointed Assistant in Physiology. A.B. Pomona '23; A.M. Harvard '24; Ph.D. Harvard '31. He taught at Cornell...
Another party was led by Walter D. Wood '26, who, accompanied by his brother, Harrison Wood '36, reached the unconquered peak of Mt. Steele. This mountain, which is also in the Yukon region, is 16,400 feet high, making it one of the ten loftiest peaks in North America...