Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is no person to whom Harvard College owes more than to her first President, Henry Dunster. A graduate of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and minister of his native village of Bury in Lancashire, he left England at the age of thirty rather than conform to the Laudian reforms. A reputation for learning preceded him; and in August 1640, three weeks after arriving in Boston, he was elected President of Harvard College, by the Board of Overseers...
...superintendent of motive power, well-paid though he was, concluded that, without executive experience, a mechanical man can get just so far and no further in railroading. Moreover, building engines for sale interested him more than buying engines and keeping them running until they died of old age. He took the Pittsburgh job, at a big drop in salary. The salary did not stay down long...
...usual time for an electrocution is Thursday at 11 p. m. The warden is required to send out invitations to "twelve reputable citizens of full age," three court officials, two physicians, seven keepers, a clergyman, the executioner (a skilled electrician). The warden must also attend the scene himself. Warden Lawes says that he has received more than 700 applications for the job of executioner, many of them offering cut-rate prices...
...Sometimes a thin gray wisp of smoke pushes itself out from under the helmet that holds the head electrode, followed by the faint odor of burning flesh. The hands turn red, then white, and the cords of the neck stand out like steel bands. After what seems an age, but is. in fact, only two minutes ... the switch is pulled and the body sags back and relaxes, somewhat as a very tired man would do. ... Thus I have seen the tragedy enacted that has taken the lives of 114 men and one woman...
...more indecorous than Dizzy's pursuit of newly widowed, wealthy Mary Anne. But Mary Anne met gossip with gossip: "Dizzy married me for my money, but if he had the chance again he would marry me for love"; and lavished on him the affection a straight-laced Christian age had grudged the fantastic Jew. Thirteen years his senior, she pampered him with parties, and medicines, and peacocks screeching on the terrace; and in his gratitude Disraeli forgot her social gaucheries, forgave her boast that Greek sculpture paled before "my Dizzy in his bath." Meanwhile Mrs. Gladstone was relieving...