Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carnegie Foundation, established in 1906 by Andrew Carnegie, encourages advancement of fundamental research in fields normally not covered by other agencies, and it has organized its own departments for research in the sciences and history. It also seeks to provide retiring pensions for teachers in the United States, Canada, and Newfoundland...
...making friends, had his hair "dressed" every day and took care to be seen in the most fashionable places. He was soon intimate with Lord and Lady Northumberland, Actor David Garrick, Writer Oliver Goldsmith and a fast set of tony young rakes. He dined well, co-authored (with Andrew Erskine) a book of poems and letters which he calmly reviewed himself in the London Chronicle as "a book of true genius." London's more objective Critical Review called the poems "the cheapest and most nauseous drugs of this press surfeited age and country...
...When Andrew Carnegie put up the first $1,000,000 to start a school in Pittsburgh, ais objective was on the modest side. His first aim was merely to help the sons of his steelworkers to learn a skill or a trade. But the school collected a first-rank faculty, and Steelmaster Carnegie raised his sights. By the time he died in 1919, his school had become a full-fledged institute of technology...
...battle of the Horseshoe, Chief Junaluska [of the Cherokees] had saved the life of Andrew Jackson by driving his tomahawk into the skull of a Creek warrior who had Jackson at his mercy. When Andrew Jackson became President ... he repaid this debt by ordering the Cherokee removal. So you see that even celluloid cliches have their counterpart in real life...
...green Daimler "consort" saloon model (price: ?1,690) complete with radio, air conditioning unit and make-up compartment. Up from Malta came father Philip to join the family in the white-and-gold music room of Buckingham Palace for another christening. Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margarita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Princess Andrew of Greece (by proxy), Earl Mountbatten and the Hon. Andrew Elphinstone, first cousin of Princess Elizabeth, took their stations as godparents while the Archbishop of York christened Princess Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise of Edinburgh, who looked her 67-day-old best in a satin and lace gown handed down...