Word: walden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...March 4, shortly after noon, Helen Terwilliger, 13, sat comfortably in her eighth grade U. S. history class in the Walden, N. Y., public school. She was primed for what she was about to hear over the radio. She had memorized the Presidential oath, as prescribed by the Constitution, and was positive it ended with the words: "Preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States...
Meanwhile Helen has become Walden's most distinguished pupil. A smooth-haired, frank-faced girl, she likes "any outdoor sport and taking care of babies." She enjoys "most any type book, particularly college stories." She also says: "I would like to be a high school teacher when I have completed high school and college...
Vanished. Chinook, 12, famed brown husky lead-dog of Dog-Teamster Arthur T. Walden; from the Byrd expedition headquarters at Bay of Whales, Antarctica. His team, consisting of eight sons and grandsons, remained intact at headquarters. Chinook apparently crept away to die alone...
...never sat in an automobile. That did not prevent him from becoming an automobile salesman. He earned $15,000 in commissions the first year. Then, in 1910. he went into the taxicab business with Walden W. Shaw. The Chicago Athletic Club wanted a private cab service. Messrs. Hertz and Shaw had only two second-hand cars. They borrowed eight others, painted them brightly, paraded past the Chicago Athletic Club, won the contract...
...Barrett Wendell Prize, "for the member of the Sophomore Class concentrating in the field of History and Literature who has made the most notable progress during the year" was awarded in May, 1928, to Richard Walden Hale, Jr., of Needham, from the Class...