Word: mckaye
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...annual overhauling of the club plane immediately, the flying season will be resumed for the spring months, according to an announcement made last night by R. B. Bell '30, president of the organization. The task of reconditioning the club Travel-air, which has been in the Gordon McKay Laboratory since flying ceased last fall, will take about one month. All the work will be done by the members of the club and the plane is expected to be ready for service by March...
Candidates and members will dismantle the plane this winter and overhaul it. The wings and body will probably be stored in the hangar at the airport, and the engine brought to Cambridge and placed in the Gordon-McKay Laboratory...
HOME TO HARLEM-Claude McKay-Harpers ($2.50). Jake, a Negro, home from the World War, picks up a warm brown girl in a Harlem cabaret, gives her his last $50, spends the night with her. Next morning, after leaving her, he discovers in his pocket the $50 with a scrawl attached: "Just a little gift from a baby girl to a honey boy." But Jake had lost her address. So he finds new women, old drinks; becomes a longshoreman, a third cook on a Pullman, a quiet enjoyer of metropolitan fleshpots. In the end-Negroes, too, like it happy-Jake...
Author Claude McKay is a Negro. Born in Jamaica of parents who had been abducted from Madagascar, he was sent to the U. S. by a friend to be educated. After two years in college, he washed pots and pans in Harlem, worked on Pullmans and steamers. He wrote most of Home to Harlem while working on docks at London and Marseilles...
Professor Albert Sauveur. Gordon McKay Professor of Metallurgy and Metallography, will lecture on "The Rusting of Iron and its Prevention" this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in 110 Prince Hall the lecture will be open to the public...