Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Massachusetts leads all states with a total of 19,519 living alumni, while next in line are New York and California with 10,793 and 2,827 respectively. The smallest group is in Nevada, where only 29 Harvard graduates live, but every state in represented...
...miles from Cape Nome. Overnight a rip-roaring canvas-and-scantling town sprang up, sheltering, feeding and quenching the notable thirsts of 20,000 miners, gamblers, tradesmen and wenches. Among that gaudy citizenry were such characters as Klondike Kate, Alexander Pantages and Key Pittman, now U. S. Senator from Nevada. By 1900, there was no place like Nome for placer mining. Then, when the beach and tundra had been furrowed of its treasure, Nome languished as a commercial city. Today less than 1,500 people live there. Last week Nome was all but wiped...
...news flashed to London and traders sold dollars on the hunch that the U. S. dollar was once more on the road to perdition. It flashed to Shanghai and hundreds of Chinese who had sold silver short spent a frantic night in fear of ruin. It flashed to Nevada and hopeful miners began to talk of silver at $1.29 an oz., of opening new mines and such famed old ones as Virginia City and Leadville...
...proof he had the writings of students in 205 colleges, including every major one except Princeton, whose Class Poet in 1903 was Henry Goddard Leach. Every State except Arizona, Delaware, Nevada, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming was represented. There were marked regional differences. Most melodious were Southern poets, who picked dark themes, treated them tenderly. Most mystical were Californians; most practical, Ohioans. Natives of New England and Oregon, its Pacific offspring, were inclined to find their romance in scientific observation. New Yorkers distinguished themselves by lack of originality, as compared with Minnesotans...
...late Frederick Gilmer Bonfils' Denver Post, onetime editor of The Great Divide, weekly affiliate of the Post; of heart disease; in Denver. In Alaska, in 1900, he founded the Ornery and Worthless Men's Club of America. Among members were the late Tex Rickard, Senator Pittman of Nevada, Vice President Garner, Senator Huey Long, the late Governor Rolph of California, all members of the Anti-Saloon League. A close friend of Bonfils, Hoggatt used to amuse him by turning somersaults, slipping his false teeth through his lips and barking like...