Word: adams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ADAM WYNGATE (440 pp.)-Mary O'Hara-McKay...
...Adam Wyngate is the story of Pastor Wyngate's collapse, and a social novel of changing moral skies in turn-of-the-century America. For Mary O'Hara, author of such western idyls as My Friend Flicka and Thunderhead, it represents an ambitious departure; but she writes of a time and place she knows, since Novelist O'Hara grew up on Brooklyn Heights...
Permanent trophies to be presented to the winner and runner-up in the University tournament have been given by the three Foster brothers who have been so prominent on Crimson squash teams in the last few years. Rockwood "Adam" Foster, Henry Foster, and Hugh Foster have donated the prizes which will be awarded by their 92-year-old grandfather, C.H.W. Foster '81, who was a former Crimson football and track star...
...Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen, Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Nicomachus, Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Virgil, Plutarch, Tacitus, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Plotinus, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rabelais, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey, Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Milton, Pascal, Newton, Huygens, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Swift, Sterne, Fielding, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Gibbon, Kant, The Federalist (by Hamilton, Madison and Jay), J. S. Mill, Boswell, Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday, Hegel, Goethe, Melville, Darwin, Marx, Engels, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, William James, Freud. Most controversial omissions: Luther, Calvin, Moliere, Voltaire, Dickens, Balzac, Einstein. † New coinage meaning "collection of topics." * Positivists are the philosophical school...
...past year, Columnist Drew Pearson has been without a full-time sponsor for his radio show (Sun. 6 p.m., ABC). Adam Hat Stores, his sponsor for a year and a half, dropped him a few weeks after Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy, with the protection of his Senator's privilege, denounced Pearson on the floor of the Senate as a "Communist tool," and called for a boycott on Adam Hats (TIME, Jan. 8, 1951). Last week Pearson finally seemed to have beaten the McCarthy hex. Carter Products (Little Liver Pills, Rise, Arrid) signed him to a 52-week radio...