Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...investigate the longstanding wage dispute between 47 western railroads and 70,000 railroad employes. The appointees: Lawyer James R. Garfield (Cleveland), Chief Justice Walter P. Stacey of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, Professor Davis R. Dewey of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lawyer Chester H. Rowell of Berkeley, Calif., George T. Baker of Davenport, Iowa. Under the law, each investigator receives $100 per day plus expenses. The board must report to the President within 30 days...
...exhibition match last week. Yet Mercur rose to no great heights last week in the Eastern Turf championship at the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club to trounce Tilden in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3. Less alarming, but important, significant, was the straight-set victory (6-4, 7-5) of Berkeley Bell, of the University of Texas, over Francis T. Hunter, perennial doubles partner and intimate of Tilden...
Wondering if they had strayed by mistake into the Berkeley or the Savoy, guests followed host & hostess to the promenade deck, sat down in wicker chairs. Proudly, Commander Burney told them the R-100 is the world's largest dirigible, with a hull as big as many an ocean liner...
...these years optometry has been building-true, a few of our "weak sister" schools have closed their doors, but during this same time we have established courses in Optometry at Columbia University (New York City), University of Rochester (Rochester, N. Y.), Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio), University of California (Berkeley, Calif.) and have many other institutions which confine their curricula to optometry exclusively...
...shortly after the World War. And the classical play has not absented itself from classical setting, for the "Iphigenia in Taurus" of the company of Granville Barker likewise saw worthy performance in appropriate surroundings. Within the year Miss Anglin's "Electra" has been produced in the Greek Temple of Berkeley, California, out of door stage of the University of California. Thus the fear of commercialism, natural suspicion when the stage touches the college closely, is a bugaboo of timidity, rather than a corollary common to all such intimacies...