Word: placidness
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...midst of opening Rutgers University and its affiliate New Jersey College for Women, Dr. Robert Clarkson Clothier hurried off on a sorry errand. At Lake Placid, N. Y. had disappeared Mrs. Mabel Smith Douglass, 56, who retired as dean of New Jersey College for Women last spring because of ill health. She had apparently been rowing. Her capsized boat was found in shore. Grapplers and a diver hunted for the body. Dr. Clothier joined in the hunt, issued statements, then hurried back to Rutgers...
...exciting but comparatively simple job to pluck three Boy Scouts off a narrow ledge jutting from the perpendicular, 1,000-ft. face of Wallface Mountain near Lake Placid, N. Y. last week. The Scouts had climbed up 300 ft., could not advance or retreat. After a chilly night on the ledge they were sighted by search parties. A Coast Guard aviator flew a 1,000-ft. rope from Plattsburgh, hovered overhead signaling directions while res- cuers hauled the boys hand over hand, one at a time, up the cliff...
Meanwhile the handsome, velvet-horned seven-point buck deer marooned on a ledge in Watkins Glen, N. Y. State Park, about 275 miles from Lake Placid, continued to stump his would-be rescuers (TIME, Sept. 4). He was only 35 ft. up on the 85-ft. wall of a mountain gorge, but he viewed with alarm all efforts by human beings to rescue...
...field for last week's national championship at Exmoor Country Club in Highland Park. Ill. The fourth-Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare I-was more interested in her new baby than in golf. But there was someone to take her place: angular Enid Wilson, a tall, plain, extraordinarily placid English girl who has won her own national championship regularly for the last three years. Trying to win the U. S. title as well, she failed in 1931 and 1932. Last week she started out by winning the medal with a 76, three under women's par, a record qualifying...
Office declared to be "previously unclaimed by any nation." A few placid Chinese, fishing from the islands for turtles, did not dispute the French seizure. Three years ago France acquired by similar means and has since held Tempest Island, also in the China...