Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eventually the weights went out of fashion until, before World War I, a tiny, tireless old British lady named Mrs. Applewhaite-Abbott began to collect them. By the time she died in 1938, she owned more than 450, and not one had cost her more than $125. Just before World War II, many collectors got interested and prices began to climb. By last week, Mrs. Applewhaite-Abbott's collection had been auctioned off in London. Total price: about $50,000. No one knows how many more weights were brought back by tourists to Britain...
...Minor traffic accidents, such as rear-end collisions, cause a motorist's head and neck to be snapped rapidly back & forth. This "whiplash" injury is often more serious than at first appears, said Neurosurgeons James R. Gay and Kenneth H. Abbott, after research at Ohio State University. They urged full and prompt medical attention to ward off chronic pain or permanent injury...
Lawrence, Pusey soon found, has many ties with his alma mater. Amos Lawrence, its founder, was the brother of Abbott Lawrence, President Lowell's grandfather, and was a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and a heavy contributor to the building of Memorial Hall. Perhaps as atonement for this architectural sin or perhaps because the land was of no use to him (the Lawrence won renown for their frugality) he donated some Wisconsin acreage he had acquired to the Rock River Conference of the Methodist Church to use in founding a college...
William Saltonstall was elected first marshal, with Dudley Bell and John Barbee named second and third marshals. Dudley Howe was elected permanent treasurer. Advocate president Charles Abbott was chosen class poet, while William Atwater was elected class chorister. Edward Clark was picked as Ivy Orator...
Lawrence, Pusey soon found, has many ties with his alma mater. Amos Lawrence, its founder, was the brother of Abbott Lawrence, President Lowell's grandfather, and was a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and a heavy contributor to the building of Memorial Hall. Perhaps as atonement for this architectural sin or perhaps because the land was of no use to him (the Lawrence won renown for their frugality) he donated some Wisconsin acreage he had acquired to the Rock River Conference of the Methodist Church to use in founding a college...