Word: selah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years later two San Francisco capitalists, Selah Chamberlain and Harry W. Cole, decided to salvage the wreck. Legal squabbles beset the reclamation at once, the biggest coming when the State Highway District claimed the right-of-way to link it into the Carmel-San Simeon Highway. Civic clubs, chambers of commerce and the like have joined forces with the State to wrest the road from Ocean Shore R.R. Last week the battle still raged in court. Meanwhile, Downey Harvey, hav-ing lost $5,000,000 and been forced into bankruptcy, never entered business again. Convicted of fraud...
During javelin practice at Bowdoin College in the spring of 1932, Freshman Tapping Selah Reeve had the back of his head pierced by a javelin. He pulled the spiked rod from his skull, ran a quarter mile to the college infirmary. Last week Tapping Reeve, 23, was a Bowdoin junior with senior standing, president of Chi Psi fraternity, manager of the junior varsity football team...
Short, slim Frank O'Malley was 31 when, in 1906, the late Editor Selah Merrill ("Boss") Clarke of the Sun hired him as a reporter. New at the profession, O'Malley showed no greenness. His intimates say "he was born sophisticated." Within a few weeks he was roving the streets, a "space man." His first week on space netted him $72.58, princely for that day. Added to a good reporter's alertness to detail were O'Malley's Irish humor and sensitivity to pathos. Combined they made him a master of the human interest story...