Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese yield to no civilized nation. But no Japanese had any particular reputation for heartlessness at sea until, arriving in Manhattan last week on the U. S. Liner American Banker, lanky, 28-year-old Swedish-born Captain Hans Milton and his crew of four from the Gloucester-built schooner Pioneer blurted out an angry tale...
Other faculty orators scheduled to appear are Joseph A. Schumpeter, George Baker Professor of Economics, representing Dunster, and Lowell's William Yandell Elliott, professor of Government, who will oppose each other on the Munich Pact in the Pioneer-Bellboy fray tomorrow night, in Lowell Common Room at 7:30 o'clock...
Career: Robert Johns (not "Bob" but "Roy") Bulkley has more hair and more money than most Senators. Scion of a well-heeled pioneer family-Cleveland has a Bulkley Building, a Bulkley Boulevard-he graduated from Harvard in 1902, two years before Franklin Roosevelt, with whom he worked on the undergraduate daily Crimson. From Harvard Law School he returned to Cleveland to practice corporation law, manage his inherited real estate, and indulge a gentleman's interest in low-tariff Democratic politics which got him into Congress in 1911. Once there, he blossomed out as a prot...
...apricot-orange-flavored fruit with a dark, tough rind) from Queensland and Java, chayotes ("a delicious vegetable ... of the cucumber family") from Jamaica, chaulmoogra (a leprosy remedy) from Burma. In 1906-07, Fairchild and his staff distributed some 800 tung-oil trees (oil used in varnishes and paints) to pioneer growers in the U. S. South and Southwest...
Eliot came back after the half and stopped the Dunster running attack completely. Then the Elephants took the ball into Pioneer territory, and, after being repulsed once, scored on a heave from fullback Don Brew to wingman Rusty Westheimer. Failure to convert left the Elephants trailing by the ultimately decisive point...