Word: rockford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Times' story which followed was written by Professor William Herbert Hobbs, leader of the University of Michigan Greenland Expedition. It told how Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer, pilots of the monoplane Greater Rockford (which had set out on Aug. 16 on a flight from Rockford, Ill., to Stockholm, Sweden) had been driven off their course by a storm, and with gasoline running low had made a safe landing in Greenland's frozen wilderness. They lived for two weeks on eight ounces of pemmican a day. When found, both Hassell and Cramer were in good health, able...
...Christian Character." Louis Behr ofi Rockford, Ill., Jewish student at the University of Wisconsin, was awarded the Kenneth Sterling Day Trophy for "Christian character, distinguished service and scholarship...
Louis Behr, the fourth child of prolific Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Behr of Rockford, Ill., who have eight children, has played for three years on his college basketball team; also he has served its Jewish society, the B'nai B'rith, Hillel Foundation. Upon winning his prize, he was the recipient of a telegram from the New York World, asking him to give his "conception of a Christian gentleman's code of conduct." This request arrived "just as I [Behr] was bidding my fraternity brothers of Phi Sigma Delta farewell at our senior banquet," a circumstance which...
...National Academy and the American Philosophical Society, it constitutes the greatest aggregation of artists, scientists, and men-of-letters in the United States. The main function of the academy, in addition to maintaining a library of some 30,000 volumes, the distribution of funds for scientific research through its Rockford and Warren committees...
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