Word: allan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago they decided to do something about this semi-prohibition. Result: a ding-dong wet-dry battle. Headed by Mayor Allan M. Butler, the wets supported a plebiscite calling upon the Nova Scotian Government to permit establishment of taverns which would sell beer and liquor by the glass. Last week Haligonians voted for taverns...
Even the Japs had some better weapons than the U.S. In Tokyo last week, the Navy's Captain Allan L. Dunning reported that a Jap torpedo was superior to any developed by the U.S. or Britain. It carried more explosive farther and faster, and it left no telltale bubble trail...
Heading the list of honor students in the College were Willard Thomas Grubb, Jr. '45, who received a Summa Cum Laiste degree, and Mitchell Irs Goodman '45, Reuben, Philip Hersh '47, and Allan Johnson '47, who received Magua Cum Laiste degrees...
...restless man-that was the way friends on the Harvard faculty described William Allan Neilson. He was 48 when he left his professorship of English at Harvard to become president of Smith College, in 1917. Said a colleague: "I'll give Smith three years of Neilson at the outside...
...prophecy was off by 19 years, but the error was understandable. Blue-eyed, pixie-faced, sharp-bearded William Allan Neilson had wandered far and frequently since he first began to teach. His father was the village schoolmaster at Doune, in Perthshire, Scotland. One day, when his father was absent, ten-year-old William took over the class in the one-room schoolhouse. Three years later his father died, and William had to teach for a living. After graduating with honors from the University of Edinburgh, he taught at Upper Canada College in Toronto, Bryn Mawr, Columbia, Harvard...