Word: abraham
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During these eventful years, the International Psycho-Analytical Association was formed; and the Association and its Journal occupied much of the energy of Freud and his "Committee." The workings and interrivalries of this Committee, which was composed of such psycho-analytic pioneers as Otto Rank, Karl Abraham, Max Eitingon, Sandor Ferenczi, Hanns Sachs, and Jones himself, take up a large part of the book. This is for the most part, space well-spent, since these men were instrumental in the formation of the presently-used theories of psycho-analysis...
...Game Catch. In Littlerock, Calif., Abraham Burton, informed by reporters that his 32-year-old son Clifford had been arrested on bigamy charges (nine wives, ten children), thoughtfully observed that the boy's hobbies had always been hunting and fishing...
...School of Mathematics, Yang and Lee are only two of a host of hyper-brilliant physicists and mathematicians who read like a "Who's Who in Physics and Mathematics."' On its professional staff in recent years have been Armond Bore Albert Einstein, Kurt Godel, Deane Montgomery, Marston Morse, Oppenheimer, Abraham Pais, Oswald Veblen, John von Neuman, Bengt Stromgren, Hassler Whitney, Herman Weyl, and Yang...
...White House dinner for Queen Elizabeth? Isn't being President of the United States enough distinction for him? Then what's he doing wearing this dog tag from the late George VI? If George Washington heard about this, he would turn over in his grave-and Abraham Lincoln...
Running the company alone, Lincoln helped build Federated Department Stores into what ranks (on first-quarter earnings) as the nation's biggest retailer, adding such stores as Columbus' F. & R. Lazarus Co. (1929), Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus (1929), Manhattan's Bloomingdale Bros. (1930), Houston's Foley Bros. (1949), Dallas' Sanger Bros. (1951). Yet he was never so busy selling that he forgot the workers and society around him. Filene was a leading spirit of the New England Industrial Development Corp. to encourage small businessmen, pumped hard for better schools, wrote three books...