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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outstanding scholarship awards in recognition of high honor work have been made to Charles G. Swain, of Wollaston, Mass., and Dion J. J. Archon, of Lynn, Mass., both Freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARSHIPS WON BY 2 FRESHMEN FOR WORK | 5/5/1937 | See Source »

...driver threatened to remove them and their baggage from his vehicle by force, a strike committee pointed out that the energy output involved in any such procedure would be greater than that required to take them to the university. The driver yielded to this logic, drove his passengers to Swain Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemists at Chapel Hill | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

David N. Mills, of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, Choate; Gardner C. Quarton, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Exeter; William P. Sockman, of New York City, Hill; Augustus W. Soule Jr., of Brookline, St. Paul's; Charles G. Swain, of Wollaston, Thayer; Charles F. Whiting Jr., of Cambridge, Belmont Hill; and Masao Yatsuhashi, of Brookline, Country Day School of Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS GIVEN TO 14 FRESHMEN | 11/12/1936 | See Source »

...took off on the recent race to South Africa failed to arrive (TIME, Oct. 12). At the first opportunity, Salesman Edward's private secretary Major Hon. Alexander Hardinge released for publication this boost: "The King will be glad if the Secretary of State will convey to Squadron-Leader Swain his Majesty's congratulations on his fine achievement in breaking the altitude record with all-British equipment." Part of Hero Swain's equipment was a new type of air-tight rubber "Safety Suit" which, during the descent from his record altitude of 49,967 ft., nearly suffocated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Oct. 19, 1936 | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...flyer who thus narrowly avoided death was Squadron Leader F. D. R. ("Ferdie") Swain, 33-year-old Royal Air Force test pilot. A voluble, keen-faced bachelor, he entered the R. A. F. in 1922, served in Ismailia, Heliopolis, commanded a test flight in Africa during which he crashed in the bush, was provisioned by parachute and rescued by a special safari. Last June he was appointed to a crack experimental group at Farnborough. In his flight last week he carried a silver figurine of St. Christopher as mascot, relished his narrow squeak, as he explained afterward, because "flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Ferdie's Flight | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

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