Word: stanford
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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...
Scripps-Howard newspapers; the Christian Science Monitor; Political Commentators Arthur Brisbane, William Hard, Frank R. Kent; Presidents Wilbur of Leland Stanford and Angell of Yale...
After Herbert Hoover graduated from Leland Stanford University in 1895, he worked for two years with a mining engineering firm in the West. Then at twenty-three, he began his famous roving...
...Lindsey 4M., R. E. Mabrey 3M., M. L. Miller 3M., C. V. Perry 4M., H. A. Poindexter 3M., E. R. Rafuse 2M., L. T. Ross 3M., Nicholas Sarro 2M., Lewis Sears 3M., C. P. Sheldon 3M., J. Y. Skeirik 3M., H. M. Spence 2M., H. J. Stanford 2M., J. D. Stewart 4M., L. M. Strayer Jr. 2M., H. C. Sweet 2M., D. W. Wallwork 2M., V. P. Williams 4M., J. M. Woodall...
...almost as strong as reverence for God in California, is the rivalry between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Los Angeles could not overlook it when a San Francisco man-Professor-Emeritus Bailey Willis of Stanford University, President of the Geological Society of America -freely predicted some time ago that the next mighty upheaval of the Pacific Coast would come in Southern California. As a result of that prediction, insurance rates in Los Angeles skyrocketed 200 to 2,200%. The premium of the Union Bank and Trust Co.'s building, for example, went from...