Word: allen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont was the scene last summer of the annual six weeks' encampment of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit. Harvard and Yale men united to form a battery of field artillery under the command of Major A. V. Arnold of Yale...
...average age at the time of election was just 39. If we still think that a college president ought to have the flowing patriarchal beard, it is interesting to recall that Dr. Jesse Appleton was elected president of Bowdoin in 1807 at the age of 35; Dr. William Allen, his successor, was elected in 1819 at the age of 36; and Dr. Leonard Woods, who succeeded Dr. Allen, was elected in 1839 at the age of 32. Thus another popular fallacy is exploded...
Last week the above editorial was published in the same paper by the same editor. The paper is the Emporia Gazette; the editor, William Allen White. The circulation...
...called Nero should give violin concerts? Or some Greek christened Achilles die of blood poisoning in the heel? Almost as fine a day for lovers of coincidence occurred one day last week, when The New York Times headlined: DR. JOHNSON TO EDIT DICTIONARY, referring to crisp, diffident Dr. Allen Johnson* of Yale University and the Dictionary of American Biography, the production of which the Times has underwritten (TIME, Dec. 22, THE PRESS...
Crisp, diffident Allen Johnson...