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North Texas received a national honor, ranking first among teacher's colleges in the percentage of faculty members holding at least a master's degree. … Mary Lewis, Prima Donna soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, performed at the College Auditorium. … Summer enrollment reached 3,045 with nine new classes being offered to meet demands. … Plans for a memorial tower to honor World War I veterans were begun. The plans were drawn by alumnus O'Neil Ford. |
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Two North Texas students left for Nevada to participate indirectly in the forthcoming atomic bomb tests. The married couple was delivering a car that would be included in the test to determine the effects of nuclear fission weapons on personal property. … Archaeologist Alex Perry Kreiger lectured at the site of a recently discovered prehistoric mammoth on the Calvert farm near Denton. … The first annual Campus Chest drive, a weeklong campaign to raise money for charitable organizations and the needy, was under way. |
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Beer returned to the Rock Bottom Lounge with the first deliveries since the Denton vote for a "wet" county. … James Linebarger, professor of English, discussed the 435-mile tour of Ireland that he took in two weeks. … The second annual North Texas Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest was won for the second year in a row by Bruce Hall resident Steve Haslund, with a spitting distance of 28 feet, 4 inches. That was 4 feet less than his previous win of 32 feet. |
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Two North Texas students became engaged while skydiving. The proposal was made as they fell to earth from 13,000 feet in the air. … The North Texas library system was designated a major research library by the U.S. Department of Education. … Singer Sara Hickman ('86) performed at the Women's History Musical Celebration at Kerr Beach. |
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