Word: pomona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life to his two big hobbies: 1) W. K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, which he established nine years ago to improve children's health (endowed with $46,000,000); 2) W. K. Kellogg Institute of Animal Husbandry (with 80-odd pure-bred Arabian horses) at Pomona, Calif., which he gave to the University of California in 1932 and endowed with...
...British unthinkably dangerous and not worth mining or netting. But his own account of the adventure pointed most strongly to the eastern entrance of Scapa Flow, through narrow Holm Sound, where rocks and wrecks block all but a narrow gut close up to the main Orkney Island of Pomona...
Versatile is the word which best describes blondthatched Dave Freeman, Pomona College sophomore, and 19-year-old champion athlete. Freeman divides his time between badminton, tennis, pingpong (table tennis) and golf. He holds the 1939 national men's badminton title and the 1938 national junior tennis championship. In ping pong he is California junior champion. Golf is strictly a division, yet he shoots near par. He won the first of his many titles in boys ping pong at the age of 13, won only a few small trophies until he was 17, since then has won scores of handsome gold...
...three years ago in Pomona, Calif., a Czecho-Slovak butcher named William Dubil lugged a bottom round of beef from his refrigerator, found that someone had stored it too near the freezing coils. It was granite-hard. Sure that the piece was spoiled, would blacken as it thawed, rueful Dubil put it on a slicing machine, turned out a stack of paper-thin slices. He put them in the display refrigerator just to see what would happen...
Handsome Spangler Arlington Brugh, 27, got into the movies when a scout saw him in Journey's End at Pomona College, which graduated him in 1933. A matinee idol and shopgirls' delight from the beginning, he got off on the wrong foot when critics dubbed him "Beautiful" Robert Taylor. To counteract this tendency, his studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, put him in one two-fisted role after another, swaddled him in he-man publicity. One day last week, Spangler Arlington Brugh took matters into his own hands...