Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abraham Segel, proprietor of the College Tutors, said in defense of his company: "...our outlines have been prepared solely to be used as a supplement to the books prescribed in the course rather than as a substitute for them...
...College Tutors, ignoring the injunction of 1933, had continued outlining and selling copyrighted books. Macmillan brought suit against the school, and two weeks later, confessing guilt, the College Tutors settled out of court. It's proprietors, Joseph H. Hurvits '21 and Abraham Segel, promised to close down the offices of the combined University Tutors and College Tutors, to destroy...
Some of the historical figures to be considered in the series are Benjamin Franklin, John Marshall, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...inherited a rich family tradition of public service. His ancestral hero is great-grandfather Jesse W. Fell, who trudged into Illinois with a knapsack over his shoulder in 1832. Jesse Fell was a lawyer who became a real-estate developer and city planner, and was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln. He was the first to describe Lincoln as presidential timber. A staunch Republican, Fell proposed the Lincoln-Douglas debates, and played an important part in the Lincoln-for-President campaign...
...foundation also set out to revolutionize medical education, for Frederick Gates had been impressed by the famed report of Abraham Flexner on U.S. medical schools. In the entire nation, Flexner had found in 1910, there were only half a dozen good schools. Few of the medical colleges had clinics, fewer still had good laboratories, and many required no more than a high-school education for admission. Under Flexner's direction, the foundation and the General Education Board began pouring millions into top universities, helping them make their medical schools models for the rest of the U.S. Stirred to action...