Word: leland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Leland Stanford of California [1824-93], a racing man, exploded this "hobbyhorse" pose long before the days of the movies. Wanting to know how a horse moved his legs, so they could be made to move faster, he hired a photographer [Eadweard Muybridge] to set up a series of cameras along the race track with threads stretched across the track and attached to the camera shutters so that as the horse ran past he took his own picture at intervals. When the plates were developed, the horse appeared in postures no artist had imagined . . . Frederic Remington was bold enough...
...Leland W. T. Cummings '57, returning to his room, Weld 19, found smoke coming from a closet where suitcases and old clothes were kept. He tried to douse it with waste baskets of water, but the flames leaped to the ceiling and he and his roommate, Joseph T. "Terry" Leverich '57 were the occupants of room...
Five other Yardlings will join Goldberg in the competition for varsity manager next fall. These five other survivors of this season's freshman contest are John Carden, Leland Cole, Justin Freed, Morris Sherman, and Joseph Topjian...
...long after ist Lieut. White came home from the war in 1919, he packed up and went to New York to become director of a settlement house. Once there, he decided to get a college education. He enrolled at Columbia University in February 1922, moved across the country to Leland Stanford as a junior three semesters later. The mature and married White was a different kind of student. He graduated (A.B.) from Stanford in 1924, "with great distinction" and also with a Phi Beta Kappa key. A year later, also at Stanford, he got his master's degree...
...saws and homecraft power tools), Cleveland Welding Co. ("Roadmaster" bicycle, second largest seller in the U.S.) Junior Toy Corp. ("Junior" tricycle, biggest seller in the U.S.), Sterling Engineering Co. Inc. (electrical relays), Float-Lock Corp. (drill press vises), Thompson-Bremer & Co. (lock nuts and washers, electrical terminals) and Leland Electric Co. (electrical motors and equipment...