Word: palo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palo Alto, Calif...
Doubly saluted for keeping up the health standards which twice before had earned them kudos were: Baltimore, Hackensack (N. J.), Newark, Palo Alto (Calif.), Schenectady...
...moment in each stride when a galloping horse has all four feet off the ground at once. It took him nine years and cost him $40,000 to win the bet. He hired a photographer, erratic, long-bearded Eadweard Muybridge, to take pictures of horses in motion at his Palo Alto stud farm. The first experiments were all failures. There followed an interlude while Photographer Muybridge was tried and acquitted under unwritten law for the murder of his wife's lover. Meanwhile Governor Stanford became impatient, hired a young engineer named John D. Isaacs who finally arranged a battery...
History of Propaganda. The tidal wave of propaganda against venereal diseases began on the Atlantic Coast, in the offices of Surgeon General Parran in Washington and Social Hygienist Snow in Manhattan. But in a sense the wave may be considered a tremendous backwash from California. At Palo Alto and San Francisco in the late 1890s, stubby little William Freeman Snow and tall, lanky Ray Lyman Wilbur were undergraduates (with Herbert Hoover), medical students, later professors together. Dr. Wilbur became (1911) Dean of Stanford University's medical school. Dr. Snow went East, organized and became (1914) general director...
...major reason for its ratification is the rights of children to health and a fair chance. But it is also important that we have orderly constitutional change instead of pressure on the independence of the Supreme Court." This statement was issued to the press at Palo Alto by Herbert Hoover, his first formal statement since last election...