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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Aged 21, he married Anna M. Geisendorfer who bore him two sons, one daughter. (His son Cecil ("Stu"), chief road man for Texas Co., last summer set a New York-Los Angeles round trip automobile record of 141 hrs. in a Buick.) He served as president of Oregon State Normal School (1888-91), president of Willamette University (1893-1902). Studying law on the side, he was admitted to the bar in 1894. By 1906 he had sufficiently cultivated his district to get himself elected to Congress where he has served continuously ever since...
...Joyce Shepard. murderer of Sheriff Bob Smith and Deputy Sheriff Jake Owens of Fisher County, Tex.; at Huntsville, Tex. Sentenced two years ago, Shepard refused to eat, to wear clothes, acted mad so convincingly he was declared insane. In the asylum he dropped his role too soon, was found normal. Robert Blake, his cellmate, also condemned, wrote a magazine article which was made into The Last Mile, a Broadway smash-hit which closed last week after a 36-week run. Great thrill of the play was the prisoner's hoarse repeated cry, "Jones! Oh Jones!" which real Convict Shepard...
...exhaust gases-"chewing up" the sound waves without creating excessive back pressure upon the engine. (The latter factor, involving loss of power, has been the principal drawback to most attempts at muffling.) The pilot who tested the Jones muffler in flight said the engine lost none of its normal speed-1,900 r.p.m...
...during the night. As the morning sun warmed it, the jelly disintegrated. Water separated from it into a little pool leaving behind a light, glistening mass like delicate tissue-paper flowers. The mountaineer, who was a bit of a scientist, heated the residue in water, saw it resume its normal form, laid the foundations for the great agar-agar industry of Japan. The fundamental process has not changed since the mountaineer's discovery...
...Dunster and Lowell House libraries have already more than justified their existence. Figures for the former show that on normal days over fifty members of the House make use of the library facilities, while on days immediately preceding examinations in any of the larger undergraduate courses, nearly double that number are checked off. The experience of Lowell House has been very nearly the same...