Word: themâ
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Unlike Transamerican, which sent Pilot Parker D. ("Shorty") Cramer and a radioman to fly the proposed route?and lost them???Pan American did not equip its expeditions with aircraft. For a year they will study weather, hunt for landing fields. Watkins' party will maintain two bases about 70 mi. apart near Angamagsalik, just south of the Arctic Circle. The Michigan group, which is associated with the International Polar Year research, will make its main camp about 100 mi. above Uperniski, several hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle. It will forge across the interior of the Greenland...
...major operation remove from the body of our nation the dead flesh and decayed bones resulting from twelve years of Republican quackery." These were the words of Senator Alben William Barkley of Kentucky "keynoting" to the Democratic National Convention in the Chicago Stadium last week. The ideas behind them???the real voice?belonged 'to Franklin Delano Roosevelt who had picked the Kentucky Senator as the convention's temporary chairman and had previewed his speech a fortnight ago at Albany. The character of the campaign the New York Governor would make, if nominated for the Presidency was forecast in his henchman...
...College certificate in two years or so, then do specialized work in one of the ''Divisions." Last week Host Hutchins gave his guests a try at a new, exciting party game: Examinations. The new Board of Examinations, after lengthy studies, issued a set of questions?nearly 1,000 of them???which are samples of the four comprehensive tests sooner or later to be given the guests. The samples cover the autumn's work but the real ones, to be answered in six hours, will be for the whole year. They will be offered in June, September, December. Those who fail...
...representative in Rumania of the Baldwin Locomotive Works. A bargain was struck. That evening the priest appeared, riding in a two-horse carriage. He had with him twelve huge gunny sacks stuffed to bursting with 20-lei Rumanian bills. It took until 2 a. m. to count them???after which the priest drove off in his Buick...
...Farm" was California's first derisive term for the new institution. Present day students still use the term with affection. In 1891 the 8,800-acre Farm was ready to receive its students and 465 of them???the famed Pioneer Class?came from up & down the Pacific Coast. There were difficulties at first: Senator Stanford died in 1893 and while his estate was tied up the Stanford faculty went unpaid until Mrs. Stanford managed to persuade a court to put the professors on her payroll as personal servants. In 1906 came the earthquake which destroyed all but the smallest...