Word: pasadena
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texan uses 135 times as much water as his grandfather, and some parts of the state are draining their reserves. Houston, for example, is pumping from wells so fast that the land is actually sinking, from six inches in the business district to more than three feet in suburban Pasadena. Though enough rain falls on Texas every year to cover the entire state to a depth of 30 inches, man uses only a small part of this flood. Such worthless plant life as mesquite and catclaw absorbs 35% of the rainfall, and another 40% is lost to evaporation...
...There are many parents in Pasadena who would like to see the high scholastic standards of Caltech seep through its walls to our schools...
...Pasadena, Calif...
Even back in 1892-93 when I attended what was then called the Throop Polytechnic Institute at Pasadena, Calif., the laboratories and manual-training shops outnumbered the classrooms about five to one. I had one grievance: after the professor had given me high marks on my lab notes, they passed under the sharp eyes of the English teacher, and she would sentence me to an hour every afternoon for two weeks among the short-pants boys in the prep department to learn how to spell. I wonder if they still do that...
...Silver Fount. He has been fascinated by politics as long as he can remember. At the age of ten, he was attending political speeches. Once, he cut school and bribed a janitor with $2.50 to let him into an all-female meeting in Pasadena, where William Jennings Bryan was pouring out his oratorical silver. Before he cast his first vote. Goodie had heard Bryan a dozen times-as well as Woodrow Wilson, Hiram Johnson, William Howard Taft, Champ Clark and Theodore Roosevelt. Much of Goodie's political technique derives from his hooky-playing days with the great spellbinders. Says...