Word: lasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parker Dresser Cramer, who twice vainly tried to fly from Illinois over Canada, Greenland and Iceland to Europe (TIME, July 15) was with Explorer Wilkins and Flyer S. Alward Cheesman on Deception Island last week, preparing to attempt a South Pole flight. *Rendered possible by 80 pages of intricate computations and figures of George Washington Littlehales, 69, government hydrographic engineer, comfortably located in Washington. The Littlehales tables are to the avigator what Bowditch's tables are to the navigator. They aided Commander Byrd's North Polar flight...
...Brownstown, Ind., Mrs. Bruce Jarvis was granted a divorce from her wealthy husband because only once in the last 20 years has he had his hair or beard...
Teachers' College at Columbia University is the largest training station for schoolteachers in the land (2,799 degrees and diplomas awarded in 1927-28). Last week the Mother Goose dispute cropped up there. Miss Marie Duggan of the Bureau of Educational Service announced...
...Foundation, which by its connection with Harvard is allowed the use of University laboratories and equipment, is at work on a six reel talking picture dealing with the history of Massachusetts over the last 300 years...
...Last week a Foundation representative photographed Calvin Coolidge in Northampton for the modern section of this film, which is soon to be released...