Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning last week, lessons were proceeding as usual at Oak Park (Ill.) High School, when a messenger from Principal M. R. McDaniel's office entered one of the classrooms and haled Student Sam Givens into the corridor. He was wanted at "the office." Having lately won a local oratorical contest, Sam flushed with pleasure, thinking to himself: "Ho, ho, this will be something that Mac [Principal McDaniel] wants to say to me about the national oratorical contest...
...they wanted the correct spelling of his name for his diploma, or something. "Buck" Halperin, another footballer, captain for next fall, followed Al and Sam. So did Lawrence ("Larry") Forster, baseball captain; so did Arthur ("Art") Bramhall, star pitcher; so did Edwin Fogarty, social light; Millard Meyers, Oak Park funnyboy; the two popular Hadfield boys, Bill and Bud-and many another. It was a veritable procession of Oak Park notables, 51 of the leading boy students...
...conquerors, should still contain many art treasures of the Golden Age. The digging is entirely under the American School of Classical Studies at Athens*; after 30 years or so of labor, the Agora will be given back to Greece, stripped of its 35 feet of debris, for a public park. Dr. Capps also formally opened the Gennadium, a new marble library built by the Carnegie Foundation to house historical documents given to the American School by H. E. Joannes Gennadius, wealthy Attic statesman...
Married. Miss Louise King of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., great-great- granddaughter of Commodore Vanderbilt; to Kenneth A. Shaw of Newport...
Died. Commander Ogden T. McClurg, 47, wealthy head of A. C. McClurg & Co., publishers, navigator of the recent Mason-Spinden expedition into Yucatan (TIME, April 26, SCIENCE), Commodore of the Lincoln Park (Chicago) Yacht Club, member of other yacht clubs; in Chicago, of cerebral hemorrhage...