Word: verne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, President O. C. Hulett of the Burlington (Wis.) Liars' Club announced that the diamond-studded gold medal for the best lie of the year had been awarded to Vern L. Osborn of Centralia, Wash. Vern L. Osborn's lie: ' was hunting one day with a mule that I had trained especially for trailing jack rabbits. The chase led to a thousand-foot precipice. The rabbit was going so fast it plunged over the brink...
Dead indeed next day lay not only State Senator Leidlein but State Representatives T. Henry Hewlett. Charles D. Parker, Vern Voorhees, John W. Goodwine, Don E. Sias, D. Knox Hanna and at least 24 other guests of the Kerns Hotel. Soon after fire had broken out in the night, the tindery old hotel was roaring from end to end like a well-kept fireplace. For 20 minutes women with hair and clothes ablaze ran screaming up & down the halls while men leaped out to die on frozen sidewalks or in the ice-coated little river to the rear. Then...
...years ago the University of California's Dr. Vern O. Knudsen, president of the Acoustical Society of America, communicated to the Society's Journal some studies which indicated that sound is absorbed in air ten to 25 times more rapidly than had been previously calcu lated, and that absorption is fastest in dry air, a familiar fact to those who know how well sound carries on a foggy day. Since then Dr. Knudsen has not ceased to experiment with the "decay" of sound under various conditions. To the same Journal he has now reported new findings...
Damp or sultry weather may be uncomfortable for audiences at open-air concerts but it is the ideal condition for having well-balanced musical tones, according to an observation by Dr. Vern Oliver-Knudsen, acoustic expert at the University of California. In ordinary weather, low tones carry much better than high ones, which have less energy. In humid air the high tones ride on the particles of suspended moisture, helping the hearer to perceive the complete orchestration...
...Friday evening with a new ladies' endurance record of 35 hr. 46 min. 55 sec. sustained flight, surpassing by nearly ten hours the previous record (26 hr. 21 min. 32 sec. by Elinor Smith), falling 2 hr. 14 min. short of the men's record (last October; Vern Speich at Long Beach, Calif...