Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There (Sun. 2 p.m., CBS), "reporting" the Aaron Burr-Alexander Hamilton duel...
...bear his name, and son of Thomas S. Woods, JF, an all-American Crimson football player in 1920. He broke the Freshman backstroke record on his own again in last year's Bulldog sinking with 2:39.4. Diving mentor Bernie Kelley, although disconsolate over the loss of Bob Aaron, still has one of the best board men ever to mount the tower in Tom Drohan, who should have numerous high degrees of difficult feats to unveil by the time the team faces the Greenwood...
Seekers after culture swarmed Peuser's gallery to see an impressive exhibit of Matisse drawings, attended symphony concerts, heard visiting U.S. composer Aaron Copland conduct his Appalachian Spring ballet suite. Others put their money on the horses at Palermo, San Isidro and La Plata, rattled by train to the mosquito-infested waterways at Tigre for the weekend...
...teachers' turn to be tested. In Denver, the Rocky Mountain News asked about 100 Colorado public elementary and high-school teachers such questions as who killed Lincoln? What was the Monroe Doctrine? The teachers' average grade: 67 (below passing). Some believed that Aaron Burr assassinated Lincoln, that George Washington wrote the Declaration of Independence, and that the Civil War lasted ten years. Toughest question: Who married Pocahontas? Most teachers said John Smith. Correct answer: John Rolfe...
...names were given the heave ho (samples: William "Boss" Tweed, Carrie Nation, Daniel Boone, Pocahontas). Enough also-rans (1½ pages in the D.A.B.) were then added to bring the list to an even thousand. The finalists include 973 men (examples: George and Booker T. Washington, Eugene V. Debs, Aaron Burr, Andrew Carnegie, Brigham Young) and 27 women (Lillian Russell, Emily Dickinson, Mary Baker Eddy). Some of the findings...