Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dane Coolidge made the Jayhawkers' tragedy the starting point of a rambling, formless but interesting account of the perils of gold-hunting in the hottest region on earth, the 500 square miles of volcanic rock, salt deposits, borax mines, poison springs and complete desolation that make up Death Valley. Divided into eleven brief chapters and illustrated with 17 excellent photographs by the author, Death Valley Prospectors is partly an account of Author Coolidge's travels through the Valley, partly history as he picked it up from his reading and his talks with Indians and oldtimers like...
...engineering school, Oliver D. Sledgo, of Austin, Texas, has been awarded the Evoloth Scholarship, while William D. Dickinson, Jr., of Little Rock, Arkansas, has received the Searle Scholarship...
...Blake and Don Reynolds have installed a second tow at Brookline, N. H. The main hill has been widened and the trees at the top of the run, as well as the rock piles below, have been removed. There is a new run, called the Depot trail. The lunch room has been renovated; the town of Brookline is going to clear a much larger parking area this season, and between Jan. 9 and Feb. 22 Norwood Cox, Harvard Coop ski pro, will have charge of the classes and individual instruction every Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday...
...XIIIth Amendment was adopted, forbidding the keeping of slaves. In 1866 Congress passed a statute making slave-keeping punishable by a $5,000 fine, five years in prison. Not once in 70 years had the law been invoked until three months ago when a Federal Grand Jury at Little Rock, Ark. indicted Paul D. Peacher, Crittenden County cotton planter and former deputy sheriff, for "aiding and abetting in causing persons to be held as slaves...
...natural owner of a tremendous baritone, young Mr. Middleton made it terrifying in the loud passages by blaring through his microphone. Dark, good-looking, 28, Mr. Middleton studied music at Juilliard for four years against the wishes of his father, a member of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. He took a nonsinging role in Roberta for two years, made his baritone debut last summer singing Gilbert & Sullivan in St. Louis and Central City, Colo. To replace Baritone Julius Huehn, he went to Chicago fortnight ago to sing star parts in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Gruenberg...