Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward harris Kemp, of the Department of Physiology, Clark University, appointed Research Fellow in Physiology. A.B. Wake Forest College, North Carolina '28; Ph.D. Clark Univ...
...eight men 9,000 ft. above in the gleaming Pan American Clipper, the exuberant specks on the beach were less interesting than the little lump of land they hopped on. It was Wake Island, an insignificant pinprick on the map since 1796 and an uninhabited U. S. possession since 1899. Now Wake Island had become vastly important as the third stepping-stone in Pan American Airways' long strides across the Pacific from San Francisco to Canton. Some 5,000 miles west of San Francisco, Wake consists of three low coral atolls, the largest but four miles long, surrounded...
...lonely spot the S. S. North Haven three months ago took 2,000 tons of equipment, set a trained squad to work dynamiting a passage through the reef, building houses, preparing for the comfort of future passengers to the Orient. Then the North Haven sailed off, leaving behind on Wake Island eight inhabitants. To salute these eight men and their work, which it was the first to use, the Clipper circled twice, then slid into the lagoon 8 hr. 8 min. after leaving Midway, 1,191 miles away...
...much. Miss Ingalls could have made better time, at considerably less expense and energy, by taking one of the regular transcontinental airliners. Nevertheless it was the first East-West non-stop coast-to-coast flight by a woman. Laura Ingalls left the stage to become a flyer in the wake of the Lindbergh boom. She had been by turns a vaudeville actress, Spanish dancer, graduate nurse, amateur detective. At Curtiss Field her small, helpless appearance at first evoked laughter. Later she was told she would never make a flyer. Indomitable, she kept on, got a secretarial job at a flying...
...wake of Michigan, Georgia and Arizona, Massachusetts last fortnight passed a bill requiring every teacher and professor to swear allegiance to Federal and State Constitutions (TIME, April 15), thus brought to 19 the number of Red-scared states having teachers' oath laws...