Word: addison
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...last name from Schumann ("to Americanize it," says Charlie), and settled in Philadelphia. His son, also Charles, grew up and headed West to seek his fortune. When he got to Sullivan, he ran out of money, went to work as a hired hand on the farm of Major Addison McPheeters, a Scots settler who won his spurs in the Black Hawk War. Before long, Charles Shuman married the major's daughter Mary and took over the farm. They had three children, one of whom was Bliss, Charlie Shuman's father...
...JOSEPH ADDISON: "The 18th century in England may not have been a very moral age, but it was certainly an age of moralists. Addison was the first lay preacher to reach the ear of the middle classes and to give dignified expression to their ideals and sentiments. He was the safest, the nicest great writer English literature had produced until the Victorian...
Blue, White & Yellow. Azure crescents in the fingernails sometimes mean that a patient is suffering from Wilson's disease, a disorder that causes copper to collect in the brain, liver and cornea of the eye, and results in progressive tremor. Addison's disease, a serious malfunction of the adrenal glands, shows up in yellow fingernails. Vertically ridged nails may be a sign of nerveroot damage. Liver trouble sometimes results in opaque white nails that will not change color even when squeezed...
College Campus. In trying to serve, Kemper has vastly improved his school. With 436 acres and 139 buildings, it has more students than half the nation's four-year colleges. Its 80,000-volume Oliver Wendell Holmes Library tops three-fifths of all college libraries. Its Addison Gallery of American Art, with works from Homer to Hopper, would do a sizable city proud. Its 85-man faculty is superior to most college faculties, and some teachers get paid more-up to $12,000, plus fringe benefits that add as much...
Sunday, August 19: 10 a.m. Chamber Music Hall - Friends Event BMC Chamber Music 2:30 p.m. Shed - Boston Symphony Orchestra - Conductor: Charles Munch - Schubert: Symphony No. 5 - Foss: Time Cycle (Addison) - Conducted by the composer - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Graffman...