Word: volney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Deep Rays. Near Mohawk, Mich., the Seneca Copper Mining Co. has a mine shaft which slopes down at a 34° angle to a vertical depth of 1,600 feet. Volney C. Wilson, research assistant of the University of Chicago's famed Arthur Holly Compton, worked for three months in the shaft with a cosmic ray recorder of his own design, containing four ionization tubes. These were arranged in line so as to exclude cosmic rays shooting down the open shaft, to catch only rays boring vertically through the rock. From the surface to 1,600 feet Mr. Wilson...
...Russell Allen, of Greenfield, Massachusetts, Head Usher, the group includes the following Juniors: Nathaniel G. Bonehley; Frederick S. Bigelow; Alden S. Blodget, Jr.; Sherman Brayton; John L. Dampeer; Nathaniel V. Davis; John C. Dovelin; John T. Dunton; John Dwinell; Morris Earle; Francis C. Eaton; David Emerson; John W. Ewell; Volney W. Foster; Fellown D. Gardner; William T. Glendenning; Lincoln Godfrey, Jr.; John MacD. Graham; Hubert H. Hauck; Samuel T. Hicks, Jr.; Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.; Francis Keppel; Francis X. Leary...
...Volney W. Foster, Fellowes D. Gardner, William T. Glendinning, Lincoln Godfrey, Jr., John MacD. Graham, Hubert H. Hauck, S. Trafford Hicks, Jr., Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Francis Keppel, Francis X. Leary, John P. Lee, George F. Lowman...
Number six man will be chosen from among seven Sophomores who have been competing in preliminary matches for the past three days. Led by Louis Allis, Jr. and Norman Mendleson both of whom recorded 78 in unofficial practice, are Frederick I. Olson, Alvah N. Pierce, Archibald McG Foster, Volney W. Foster, and James D. Brown. Those six men who are unsuccessful will comprise the Jayvee team...
...Died. Volney T. Hoggatt, 74, oldtime newspaperman, conductor of the "Ornery Man" column in the late Frederick Gilmer Bonfils' Denver Post, onetime editor of The Great Divide, weekly affiliate of the Post; of heart disease; in Denver. In Alaska, in 1900, he founded the Ornery and Worthless Men's Club of America. Among members were the late Tex Rickard, Senator Pittman of Nevada, Vice President Garner, Senator Huey Long, the late Governor Rolph of California, all members of the Anti-Saloon League. A close friend of Bonfils, Hoggatt used to amuse him by turning somersaults, slipping his false teeth through...