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...regards Mr. Abraham Edwards, marshal of Cambridge, it is said that he seized one of the students, a weakly-attenuated young man, and threw him over the fence and thereupon was handled rather roughly by some of the experts in boxing at the college. It is said that two of his eyes were blackened; hence his feeling in the matter and the issue of warrants for the arrest of the students...
...movies will never catch up with Professor Abraham Pais of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. They have achieved three dimensions after a fashion, but Pais uses twice as many. Last week he told a convention of physicists in Kyoto, Japan that thinking in six dimensions may be necessary before man can understand the inner workings of matter. Said Pais...
...like "Kitty," "Copey," and Dean LeBaron Russell Briggs, of wrinkled but beloved visage. The succession of university Presidents appear too, with Jared Sparks in 1849 politely refusing a female applicant ("the time may come when female claims will be more justly valued"), or Thomas Hill, in 1862 warning Abraham Lincoln about the behavior of his son, or Eliot, Lowell and Conant striving eloquently to define the meaning of Harvard...
Dulles quoted another humble American, Abraham Lincoln: "There is something in the Declaration [of Independence] giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time." Then Dulles brought Lincoln's sentiment up to date by ringing a resonant change on the name of the sterile and negative policy associated with the word "containment." Of the American belief in liberty for all peoples. Dulles said: "We do not conceal that conviction, and no United States Government could contain...
...startling as his cleanup was the skill and authority with which Ruiz Cortines carried it out. Mild and unassuming personally, the new President nevertheless grasped his great powers firmly. His methods reminded one subordinate of the story of Abraham Lincoln polling his Cabinet, finding all eight opposed to his view, then announcing: "Eight nays, one aye; the ayes have it." Though he has held only two Cabinet meetings since taking office...