Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undergraduate--1st Prize of $500 to Richard S. Salant '35, of New York, N. Y., for an essay entitled "The Poet's Harp." 2nd Prize of $200 to Howard F. Schomer '37, of Oak Park, Ill., for an essay entitled "Robert Frost and the Good Life in the Twentieth Century...
...weeks later the Albers (FlapJack) Milling Co. plant made a roaring fire with a $300,000 loss. Seattle's ball park spiraled in smoke. Executives and their underlings opened the morning mail to find printed notes threatening fires. Factory after factory burned. Lumber yards, stacked high with fir and cedar from Washington's forests, became kindling pyres. A boxcar, filled with new Buicks specially built with right-hand drives for shipment to the Orient, became a pile of ashes and twisted steel. Seattle's nominally low 60? per capita fire loss zoomed to $1.40 in four years...
...thousands of gifts which poured in on him from the ends of the earth. Because a handful of St. Louis businessmen had backed him with $15,000, he sent his trophies to the Missouri Historical Society, which housed them in a wing of the Jefferson Memorial at Forest Park. St. Louis. The Spirit of St. Louis he sent to Washington's Smithsonian Institution...
...fastest time ever recorded for the four-mile course which runs past Krum Elbow and Hyde Park, home of President Roosevelt, and under the two bridges, was California's 18:35 4/5 in 1928. The same crew, which beat Columbia in this race by less than a boat length, went on to win an Olympic victory. A similar record although not in time, was hung up by the Golden Bears of 1923. California also won in 1934, following the depression lapse...
...Year Poker & Pretzel Club, for which Mr. Sulzberger & friends were obliged to journey to Washington this year because Secretary Morgenthau was too busy to come to Manhattan. The other is the New Year's Eve party in the Sulzbergers' rich mansion in East Eightieth Street near Central Park. From 2 a. m. on, guests drift in from earlier parties, gravitate to the huge, glistening kitchen to grill frankfurters, scramble eggs, bib champagne...