Word: rolande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roland H. Hartley is currently campaigning for his third term as Governor of Washington. A former timber operator, he has never been known as a champion of progressive education, or even of that handy motto "education-for-all." Rugged Governor Hartley has, however, run things to his taste, notably six years ago when his Board of Regents ousted President Henry Suzzallo of the University of Washington (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). Last week, like a lumberman smashing a log jam, he shook up the university once more. President Suzzallo, now head of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, must...
Just before the first match in the Davis Cup finals between Germany and the U. S., a clumsy waiter delighted the crowd in Roland Garros Stadium. Paris, last week. He fell over some chairs in the grandstand, noisily spilled a tray of orangeade. The crowd, largely composed of Parisian Germans and Parisian Frenchmen who wanted Germany to win because it might make it easier for France in the challenge round, was delighted also by the next thing that happened. Baron Gottfried von Cramm, a handsome stocky young German, beat tall, rangy, raven-haired Francis Xavier Shields of New York...
...There are no good turf courts in France. The courts at Roland Garros Stadium, designed by Charles Bouhana, are of red clay much like En-Tout-Cas ("all weather") courts which are made in the U. S. and elsewhere by En-Tout-Cas Co. Tennis ball specifications for size, weight, thickness of cover are the same all over the world; but because most European players prefer a slower bounce, Dunlap Co., which makes most tennis balls abroad, uses a rubber composition that gives a less lively bounce than the composition used by U. S. manufacturers. European tennis balls last...
...GOOD SHEPHERD?John Rathbone Oliver?Stokes ($2). A revised reprint of a novel first published in 1917 under the pseudonym John Roland. An inspirational novel of how a U. S. doctor, in the Austrian Tyrol, modifies his own as well as other people's spots. One of the best medical tales ever written...
...Sistare, New Bedford, Mass.; Eveleth Scholarships: F. B. Giliberty, Hempstead, N. Y.; T. C. Jarrett, Britton, So. Dakota; E. A. Walker, Philadelphia, Penna.; Searle Scholarships: A. C. Keiser, Jr., Atlanta, Ga.; Pao Ho Wang, Peiping China; Storrow Scholarships: W. H. Lehmberg, Philadelphia, Pa.; Reuben Reiter, Boston, Mass.; S. W. Roland, Rockford, Illinois; J. R. Weske, Quincy, Mass.; J. J.-A. Jessel, Methuen, Mass.; T. A. Wheeler, West Somerville, Mass...