Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earle Elmer Meadows, 24, and William Healy Sefton, 22, pole-vaulted separately before they entered U.S.C. in 1933. Beginning at 10, Earle practiced with an old rug cane and clothesline strung up in his Little Rock front yard. Anxious to spur his son's aerial career, Father Meadows, a cloth manufacturer, offered him a nickel for every inch above 5 ft. that he could make. In 1932 when he was a high-school senior at Fort Worth, Earle cleared 13 ft. to establish a Texas scholastic record, 6½ in. less than the national interscholastic record Bill Sefton...
...Standard Theatre. In 1883 Henderson joined the staff of the New York Times, and four years later he was made its music critic. But editors did not forget Billy Henderson's fine news stories on the death of William Henry Vanderbilt and the blowing up of Flood Rock. When, in 1889, the great flood destroyed Johnstown, Pa., the Times sent him to get the story...
...differently. Chief of these is Dr. Bailey Willis, an 80-year-old Stanford geology professor with a handsome white beard. Two years ago a diver, working on the preliminary survey for the Bridge's great south pier 1,000 ft. from shore came up to declare that the rock was "as soft as plum pudding." Dr. Willis devoted months to proving that the rock on which the pier would rest was crumbly serpentine "unstable to a degree likely to endanger the bridge." This blast was apparently the reason the PWA refused to aid the builders. Dr. Willis was presently...
Since 1898 when it was first discovered, Eros has attracted unusual attention both because of its fickle brightness and because it is one of the earth's nearest neighbors. A cold splinter of rock, estimated to be about 22 miles long and 7 miles thick, Eros sometimes comes within 14,000,000 miles of the earth...
Scholarships totalling $9,675 have been awarded at the Harvard Graduate School of Engineering for the academic year 1937-1938 to the following: L. L. Beranck, of Mt. Vernon, lowa; Louis A. Carapella, of Tuckahoe, New York; Quang Tou Chang, of Kiangsu, China; William D. Dickinson, Jr., of Little Rock, Arkansas; Alden P. Edson, of Lawrence, Kansas; Daniel J. Faustman, of Sacramento, California; Charles D. Gates, of Asburnham; Emil C. Jensen, of Burlington, Washington; 1-Lun Liu, of Fukien, China; Clifford M. Mast, of Davenport; Iowa; Iwao Miyake, of Honolulu, Hawait., Charles T. Morrow, of Cloucester...