Word: walkerton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Born in Walkerton, Ind., Harold Clayton Urey was left fatherless when he was 6. His mother and later his stepfather helped him through University of Montana, from which he emerged a zoologist. The War shunted him into chemistry. Later he took his Ph. D. at University of California, studied in Copenhagen under Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr. He is married, has two daughters. He is a neat, square, plump-faced man who likes to extemporize on the piano, make charcoal sketches. Once he smoked two packages of cigarets per day. Now he chews gum instead...
...South Nyack, N. Y. Mrs. Ida Barrett Wheaton, 55, relict of a War veteran whom she met by mail, heard that her new War-veteran-correspondence fiance, one Warren Harris, was weakening in his resolution to marry her. She packed her bags, hailed a taxi, directed the driver: "Walkerton, Indiana. Step on it!" At Walkerton she found her fiance was only 36 years old. Also she disliked her prospective mother-in-law. Therefore she directed the chauffeur to drive her back to South Nyack. Distance covered: 1,778 mi. Fare...