Word: acton
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THEODOSIA C. LESTER West Acton, Mass...
...last U.S. winner, John A. Kelley of West Acton, Mass., was now called Kelley the Elder, and counted out by all but sentimentalists. But there was another Kelley in contention-Boston University Student John J. Kelley (no kin to John A.)-and also a Natick, Mass, schoolteacher, Nick Costes, to give the U.S. a chance for the Patriots' Day laurel wreath. The younger Kelley, a ten-year veteran at 25, had finished fifth in 1953, seventh in 1954. Costes had placed a strong third last year...
Elected to the other offices in the class were Christiane Gaugier of Lynchburg, Va., and Cabot Hall as vice-president; Cynthia L. Heath of West Acton, Mass., and Briggs Hall as secretary; and Frances M. Lane of Wakefield, Mass., and Moors Hall as treasurer...
Quoting Anatole France, Lord Acton, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dever's speech was a vehement defense of the Democratic record and a denunciation of the "first hundred days" of the Eisenhower administration. "But," Dever said, "liberalism, like General MacArthur, will return...
...political science, they will begin to trace "the development of the concept of liberty" by reading the works of Lord Acton and De Tocqueville. Then, in Renaissance literature, they will be concerned with the development of the individual, and later, when they get into the Reformation, with the individual in relation to God. Their biology may begin with Darwin's Origin of Species, their psychology with the writings of Pavlov; their physics will include the works of Von Helmholtz. Even their foreign languages will be involved in the study of ideas-Voltaire in French, Cervantes in Spanish, Dante...