Word: palos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walked in the hills behind Palo Alto with Stanford's President Ray Lyman Wilbur, went fishing at the drop of a hat. He took long motor trips, helped raise money for Stanford, talked with old pedagogical friends like Professor Murray (classical literature), Professor Lutz (history), and answered letters that poured...
Five months after he left the White House, he said: "What do I do all day? I get up fairly early and take a look from the Palo Alto place into the Santa Clara Valley. It's very pleasant. Then I have breakfast and a walk. Then I get my mail and read the newspapers. Then I take another long look down the valley, thanking Providence I'm in California...
Driving from Palo Alto to San Francisco, to speak at a dinner of Young Republicans, ex-President Herbert Hoover hurriedly drafted a statement that turned out to be far more effective than the laboriously rewritten speeches that he polishes when he has time. "Civilization has struck a new low with the Communists' attack on peaceful Finland. It is a sad day to every decent and righteous man and woman in the world. We are back to the morals and butchery of Genghis Khan...
...Palo Alto, Calif., San Francisco's Dr. Edna H. Fisher described to a Pacific Science Congress how an otter eats a clam. Description: after catching a clam the otter dives to the ocean floor, picks up a hefty rock, rises to the surface, floats on his back, balances the rock on his belly, clasps the clam between his forepaws, brings it down on the rock with a mighty whack. Shell broken, the otter eats...
CHARLES G. NORRIS Palo Alto, Calif...