Word: leanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front of California. Coxswain Norrie Graham of California backed his stroke up to 44. The 3 ft. grew slowly narrower. Twenty-five yards from the finish, it was 1 ft. At the finish, California was ahead, by the width of a hand. Canada's Leander crew was 8 ft. behind Italy, England was fourth by 6 ft. more. A crowd of 95,000 saw the Olympic Torch extinguished, the 1936 Olympic Games promised to Berlin in the ceremonies that closed the most successful modern Olympiad on record. Final point score (three points for first place, two for second...
...work of many days and many men before the new type was fashioned and set up on the printing board, to spell out the fable of Hero and Leander, salvaged by the keepers of the shop from the attic of a monastery. And there is no one today who can measure the sense of high adventure with which the Venetian scholars and printers saw the heavy paper take the delicate print of the metal, the Greek myth rescued and restored by the ingenuity of the early Renaissance...
...Died. Leander Colbert Gentle, 70, once congratulated by President Coolidge at the White House for being Champion Father of the South (29 children) ; killed by a train; in Atlanta...
...service, conducted by Spnate Chaplain Phillips, was brief, simple (see p. 8).∙ ¶ As custom requires, Vice President Curtis gave a State dinner at the Mayflower Hotel last week for President Hoover. Forty-four other guests attended including Harvey Firestone, Charles Michael Schwab, William Wallace Atterbury, Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose (Kansas City cracker widow). Afterward Vice President Curtis entertained them with a newsreel of a Cabinet meeting and of Will Rogers' cinema Lightnin...
Astronomers are as proud of the number of total solar eclipses they have witnessed as railroad conductors are of the gold service stripes on their sleeves. Dr. Samuel Alfred Mitchell, director of the Leander McCormick Observatory, University of Virginia, who has been looking at the skies for 32 years, has the great totality total of 15 min. (six eclipses) to his credit. He has had to travel 90,000 mi. to do it. Had he attended every instance of the sun's darkening since 1900 he would have a grand total of 68.1 min. and might have traveled...