Word: hinman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They found still on the campus "the Colonel" (Horace M. Poynter), oldtime Latin teacher, and "Georgie" (George Walker Hinman), a Greek and Latin tutor who once bit a pencil in two when a pupil failed to conjugate amare. Missing was "Zeus" (Allen Rogers Brenner), famed old Greek teacher, many another familiar face. The old boys found other changes. In ten years a revolution had taken place...
...Hinman each sued United Air Lines for $90,000, claiming that its planes flew sometimes as low as five feet above the 72 Hinman acres next to Union Air Terminal, Burbank, Calif. The Hinmans declared that they had sole rights to the "stratum of air superadjacent to and overlying" their land and "extending to such an altitude as the plaintiff may reasonably expect to occupy." Denied by lower courts, the suit was appealed to California's Supreme Court which last week held that there had been no effective precedent and that aircraft should be treated leniently...
...yard run is missing its best bet in George Gardner, captain of the cross country team, who has just recently come out for winter track, and can't be in decent shape before the Exeter Meet. For this reason Roswell Brayton and Fred Hinman, both veterans of the cross-country season, will attempt to show their stuff to the detriment of the Andovers, and may do well...
...reaches here at 7:30 p. m. My wife was in the other room, but when your speaker reached that incident of the broadcast, his hushed voice drew Mrs. Hinman to the radio, and I heard a sob. Mrs. Hinman was born in Yorkshire, England. I was born, and, for more than forty years, lived under the British flag, and we felt we had lost a friend...
...PLATT HINMAN...