Word: patch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other important roles will be played by A. Jerome Himelhoch, Harold R. Patch, Jr., Miss Mary Williams, and William L. Batt. Minor parts will be filled by Frederic C. Gray, William M. Judd, John MacD. Graham, George F. Bigelow, R. Park Breck, Herschel Berman, Richard W. Sullivan, Alan S. Geismer, Richard Parry, William F. Schreiter, and Misses Braidy, Bopp, Wedrom, and Bartlett...
...verified what he suspected from the first-that the thickness of each year's growth ring is proportional to the amount of rainfall that year. It was clear then that before man-made records were dreamed of, the trees were faithfully inscribing rainfall records in their hearts. To patch together a continuous rainfall calendar it remained for Douglass to match thickness & thinness sequences from innumerable pieces of wood, new, middle-aged and ancient. Later work with the Carnegie Institution's help took the record back to pre-Christian dates...
...first twenty years of its existence Phelps Dodge Corp. sold cotton and tin. When in 1833 a brand new warehouse collapsed on the heads of his fusty clerks, pious old Anson G. Phelps reorganized the business, began selling lumber, iron, steel, insurance. Next Phelps Dodge acquired a patch of ground in Bisbee, Ariz, and began to dig. In 1906 it announced in all New York newspapers: "Owing to the great increase of our Copper and Railroad business in the West, we have been obliged to give up the selling of all metals except Copper...
...Francisco, Switchman Alex J. Haskins sued and won $25,000 from Southern Pacific Railroad because, when he jumped into a patch of umbrella plant as a train approached, the plant sucked in one of his legs, toppled him under the train...
...Cornell '35. Tonight at a special meeting of the club the following recently elected members will be initiated: David A. Barber '37, Spencer S. Beman, III '38, George H. Edgell, Jr. '37, Albert F. Gallatin '38, Norton Goodwin '38, Alfred T. Johnson '37, Munro L. Lyeth '37, Howard R. Patch, Jr. '38, Edward H. Turner...