Word: willard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Discoverer Urey last week was awarded the Willard Gibbs medal, top U. S. chemical kudos, bestowed annually by the American Chemical Society on a scientist in any country "whose work has received world-wide recognition...
...western division (Utah and Montana) plays a slambang, helter-skelter game resulting in high scores. The eastern (Colorado, Wyoming) tends toward conservatism and tight defense. W'yoming leads the league undefeated. Wyoming's ace is a tall, blond, left-handed forward named Les Witte, brother of Coach Willard ("Dutch") Witte. In a double-header last week against Colorado College he scored 17 points in each game, brought his season total to 113, his four-year total close to 1,000. Pacific Coast. California and Washington lead their respective divisions of the conference, but Southern California provides more entertainment...
...first American disease." Butchers and trappers have long known that a strange sickness sometimes came from skinning rabbits. Beginning in 1907 various U. S. physicians described illnesses which they called "rabbit fever," "deer-fly fever," "a plaguelike disease of rodents." In 1912 Drs. George Walter McCoy and Charles Willard Chapin of the U. S. Public Health Service isolated a new organism from sick ground-squirrels in Tulare County, Calif., named it Bacterium tularense after the county. Not until 1921 did Dr. Edward Francis of the U. S. P. H. S. discover that all the variously-named illnesses were the same...
...month ago President Roosevelt recommended that U. S. railroads and utilities establish sinking funds to retire bonds before maturity. Bets were that President Daniel Willard of Baltimore & Ohio would be the first to fall in line. But last week another railroad man, who also keeps his tracks to the White House clear, came forward with the first plan. President Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & North Western informed the I. C. C. that he would: 1) put nothing into a sinking fund until his company earned its fixed charges, 2) thereafter set aside 3% of his first...
...Joseph A. Marmon, 58, commander of the 6th Infantry, U. S. A.; in Scarsdale, N. Y. An elaborate military welcome was arranged at Governors Island, Colonel Marmon's post. It was his first marriage. Miss Frederick's fifth. Her previous husbands: Frank M. Andrews, Manhattan architect (divorced); Willard Mack, famed actor-playwright (divorced); Dr. Charles Rutherford, Seattle doctor (divorced); Hugh Chisholm Leighton, Los Angeles hotelman who obtained an annulment on charges of fraud and non-consummation...