Word: oakland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over the country on tours; not special engagements in a few big cultural capitals like Baltimore, Washington, Atlanta and Cleveland where Otto Hermann Kahn's Metropolitan goes; but country-wide expeditions-Boston, Buffalo, Columbus, Nashville, Birmingham, Jackson, Dallas. San Antonio, El Paso, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Fresno, Sacramento, Oakland. Amarillo, Tulsa, Lincoln...
...students hold down the jobs. Then they shift. Most undergraduates are employed in nearby Cleveland and Dayton, in department stores, landing fields, newspapers, advertising agencies, factories. One of the largest single employers of Antioch brawn and brain is General Motors Corp. Last year General Motors supplied positions at Oakland Motor Car Co. (Pontiac, Mich.), Frigidaire Corp. (Dayton), Fokker Aircraft Corp. of America (Hasbrouck Heights, N. J.), General Motors Proving Grounds (Milford, Mich.), Cadillac Motor Car Co. (Detroit), Chevrolet Grey Iron Foundry (Saginaw, Mich...
...friend Maureen Orcutt. Miss Orcutt, shy and broad-shouldered, with a jaw like a prizefighter's, became good enough to be the idol of Miss Hicks by trying to be as good as Glenna Collett. Thus the three most famed of the competitors who gathered at the Oakland Hills Club in Birmingham, Mich., last week to decide the Women's National Championship composed a sequence with Hicks at one end and Collett at the other. People who understood the respect determining this sequence expected that as usual Orcutt would beat Hicks and Collett would beat Orcutt...
Prenatal Influences. The only prenatal influence which a mother has on her child is her own mental and physical wellbeing, emphasized Chattanooga's (Okla.) George E. Kerr and Oakland's David Hadden. They scoffed at superstitions having to do with snakes, spiders, rats, strawberries, gruesome scenes. Any mark a child bears is due to the thickening of its epidermis, a condition originating in its own cells...
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