Word: sans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minthorn heard about a university that Senator Leland Stanford was founding in memory of his son and namesake, down in a meadowy place called Palo Alto, near San Francisco. Nephew Herbert went there, immature, shy, curly-headed, precocious at 17 except in English. Professor John Branner helped him become a prodigious geologist. Also, in that first class at Stanford University, Herbert Hoover had his first taste of politics...
...herd instinct. Man and Mother Earth have conspired to keep water cooped up in bottles, pipes, dams, lakes and oceans. But whenever Man or Mother Earth makes a slip, a Water runs madly to meet fellow Waters. Last week there was a revolt of Water in the San Francisquito Canyon and the Santa Clara Valley, 50 miles north of Los Angeles. The St. Francis dam had long been a symbol of hate in Southern California...
...would like to know the street and number of the most famous cafes, the correct hour to appear at the Lido, the sophisticated approach to the inside of Blarritz, San Sebastian, St. Moritz, Marienbad, or Monte Carlo--in short, if you would acquire a large slice of that savoir faire which marks the experienced traveler, try PLEASURE IF POSSIBLE, by Karl K. Kitchen (Rae D. Henkle Co., New York. 1928, $2.50.) With an introduction by Will Rogers, it provides for every necessity, and supplies a passport for the gay life abroad...
...last night at the Commander Hotel, officers of the Flying Club for the year 1929 were elected. William Nelson Bump '28 of New Rochelle, New York, was re-elected president of the club. Robert Bogue Bell '30 of Noroton, Connecticut, was named vice-president. James Andrew Mars '29 of San Antonio, Texas, and Donald Merriam Leith '29 of Concord, were elected secretary and treasurer respectively...
Last week was perhaps the most remarkable speculative week in modern history of the New York Stock Exchange. Speculative, because there were no political or geological events like the declaration of War in 1914, or the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Modern, because in olden days (up to 1907), the trading was small in volume and almost entirely between professional speculators, consequently subject to more sudden and violent whims than the trading of today, which affects the fortune of perhaps 7,000,000 U. S. security owners...