Word: tennant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...luck moved fast and deviously one foggy night this week on the Chicago Great Western Railroad. On a siding at Tennant, on the Iowa plains, a freight engine crew scrambled from the cab when a steam pipe burst. With brakes somehow released, the locomotive backed into a string of cars and with reverse lever swung forward by the impact, reversed its direction. Passing its appalled engineer and fireman it swung out on to the main line, picked up a grain car ahead of it and disappeared into the mist. Up the main line at 50 m.p.h. whipped No. 34, Great...
...recipients are Richard B. Tennant, Yale, of New York City; Charles N. Feidelson, Jr., Yale, of Birmingham, Alabama; Raymond J. Emrich, Princeton, of Denver, Colorado; and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Harvard, of Cambridge, all of whom will go to Cambridge University; John L. Dampeer, Harvard, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio; Albert Damon, Harvard, of Brookline; and John A. Moore, Harvard, of Clayton, Missouri, who will study at Oxford University...
What Sir John had not anticipated was that his old friend, famed archeologist Professor Tennant, and his beautiful young daughter Lyn would take a fancy to the Hestia and go along as passengers. The professor and the captain liked each other's philosophizing. In mid-Atlantic the Hestia hit a hurricane, sent out an SOS intercepted by a Cunard liner with Sir John aboard. During the black hours before the liner reached the battered Hestia, the bosun went overboard, the chief engineer died, the professor's daughter found out the sullen first mate was not a gentleman...
...boys, she learn a game which might enable her to travel around the world in style like Miss Jacobs and Mrs. Moody. Alice Marble took his advice, improved so rapidly that she won the California State Girls' title at 16. This brought her to the attention of Eleanor Tennant who, third ranking U. S. player in 1920, had since become Hollywood's best known coach. When she was 19 Alice Marble left her home in San Francisco, went to live with Coach Tennant who hired her as secretary, taught her not only a new forehand but also numerology...
...Yale speakers were Eek Lund, D. V. McNamee, and R. V. Tennant...