Word: knoll
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sight. He was affable and talkative, gave his name as Reynolds Rogers. He bought a pair of blue overalls, put on an old sweater and cap, cut himself a tall staff and began taking walks in the hills. He built a lookout in a tree on a knoll, a rude altar on another hillside. People living in the same boarding house with him understood he was prospecting for gold, came from "up Kentucky way." Reynolds Rogers attended the County Republican convention, made speeches in which he said he was an intimate of Presidents Roosevelt and Hoover. He campaigned on behalf...
...bare, lifeless clay knoll surrounded by abandoned coal diggings on the farm of Charles Elkins near Linton, Ind. last week attained national distinction. In Washington the Census Bureau designated it as the dead centre of U. S. population as revealed by the 1930 enumeration. So proud and happy were the 5,077 citizens of Linton to know that an equal number of U. S. people lived in every direction from them that their Rotary Club planned to march the 2 9/10 mi. northeast to the Elkins farm and erect a marker. The knoll's location was given technically...
Medical Centre. Duke Medical School, School of Nursing and Duke Hospital are planned as, and already are (having functioned for eight months) the greatest medical centre between Baltimore and New Orleans. Admirably designed, efficient and already smooth running, the hospital stands on a knoll behind the Medical School at one end of the campus. With a capacity of 456 beds (150 for Negroes, 50 bassinets for infants) it now has about 175 beds ready?and filled. Its staff likes to take interesting, out-of-the-ordinary ailments rather than everyday broken legs or appendectomies. Last year 3,000 students applied...
...special train took the Speaker home to Cincinnati. Into ivy-clad "Rookwood," the old-fashioned family residence on a green knoll, was carried the grey casket. Waiting there was Mrs. Longworth's stepmother, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. Also there was a little girl with flaxen curls. Paulina could hardly understand when Mother took her in her arms, told her gently that Father was dead. ... To the house came the President of the U. S. who bowed his head and moved his lips silently. Also came the Vice President,* members of the Cabinet, a dozen Senators, nearly 100 members...
...Valparaiso, Ind., Mrs. William Knoll, in nine years seven times married to and six times divorced from the same William Knoll, said that when she got her seventh decree, now pending, she was through with William Knoll...