Word: clocking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...began in silence. At 4 o'clock one morning a drizzle started in a big section of the Texas Panhandle. There was no wind. The temperature hovered at the freezing point, barely above, barely below. Fog, rain & sleet froze on trees and telephone wires. By noon trees in Amarillo were groaning with the weight of ice on their limbs. By midnight three-fourths of the town's telephone circuits were useless. By 1:30 the next afternoon the power lines were down. Western Union lost 800 poles, 2,000 crossarms, had 100,000 wire breaks. In Amarillo...
...strenuous program of activities kept the alumni buy from 9:00 o'clock in the morning, when some 540 of them registered in the faculty room of University Hall, until late that night, when the dinner at the Boston Harvard Club ended the festivities...
...clock, the returning graduates viewed movies of the Harvard Yale football game and a special feature, "Harvard on Parade," in the Geography Building. Coach Dick Harlow described the football pictures as they were shown...
From 12:30 to 1:00 o'clock, the alumni held a general meeting in the faculty room of University's Hall, following which they dispersed to lunch in the Union, the House dining rooms, and the Business and Law School dining halls...
...clock, the alumni and their families attended a service of music at the Memorial Church. Selections by the Harvard Glee Club under the direction of G. Wallace Wood-worth '24, and an organ recital by Archibald T. Davidson '06, featured the service...