Word: overton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Assistants for one year from September 1, 1924.--Sherburne Friend Cook, A.M. in Botany; Edward Sagendorph Mason, A.M. B.Litt. in Economics; Redvers Ople, B.Comm. in Economics; Lyndon Frederick Small, S.B., A.M. '23 in Chemistry, Bert Sidney Taylor, S.B. in Chemistry; and Overton Hume Taylor, A.B. in Economics...
...II?the memory of a shipwreck that occurred more than ten years before the story begins?a rash debt undischarged?the narration of the tragic love story of another Cynthia Fanning and young Pedro da Gama that was acted two centuries previous in Tangier: out of these materials Grant Overton has written "a tale of the miracle we call love and of the commonplace we call fate." A most unusually good romance, it nevertheless has its defects: a stiff burden of complications, a style that is sometimes as much Mr. Hergesheimer's as the author...
ISLAND OF THE INNOCENT-Grant Overton-Doran ($2.00). There is a curious sort of magic in this book. It tells about the adventures of a poor girl stranded in New York alone, her struggles and her loves. Always more is told than a mere series of episodes. There is an inner reality that makes the narrative extraordinarily gripping. It is a hard book to set down and a hard one to get out of your mind...
...world 60-yard champion, won two events, leading in the 50-yard handicap, and gaining first place in a special 50-yard race, beating Leconey, intercollegiate 100-yard champion, in 5 3-10 seconds. Ray, Illinois A. C., world's 5000 meter record holder, won the John W. Overton memorial mile race in the fast time of 4 minutes 19 1-10 seconds...
...McMichael '09, N. S. Simpkins, Jr.'09, H. A. Colt '10, Harold Marion-Crawford '11, C. A. Dudley '11, E. C. Sortwell '11, John Whitall '11, R. M. Dwyer '12, Charles Fry '13, A. L. Bliss '14, M. C. King '14, A. J. Brickley '16, O. D. Overton '16, W. B. Hinman '17, and H. W. Windeler...