Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Illinois statute that freed the American
Express Co. (because it is "a worldwide enterprise of unquestioned
solvency and high financial standing") from the requirement that
money-order firms must secure a license and submit to state regulation.
...such pilgrim-the book's narrator -is Andrew Colquhoun, a youngish Scots drifter eager to pluck the heart from Clausen's mystery, write his biography and perhaps thereby come to terms with his own restless nature. Also on the way to Clausen is an odd trio of characters: a tropical tycoon named Zuckermann, who is playing the white man's last rubber in the game of enlightened self-interest; his beautiful and enigmatic secretary. Gemma; and his top research man, a brilliant mixed-blood scientist who secretly aspires to be "a Napoleon of the black masses...
...Vats Veritas. In Chicago, Andrew Mulligan, charged with drunken driving, was freed when he explained that police had arrested him just after he had worked eight hours cleaning brewery vats...
...opened schools to train teachers, was partly responsible for the Southern Education Board, which sparked a national crusade to improve and finance Southern schools. The Rockefeller Foundation, partly following the Peabody lead, plunged into medical research, virtually eliminated hookworm from the South, wrestled with diseases all over the world. Andrew Carnegie's money sprinkled public libraries across the nation, set up pensions for college teachers and, by supporting the famed Flexner report on U.S. and Canadian medical schools, revolutionized medical education in America. Meanwhile, the smaller ($1,000,000 a year) but prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation...
...Andrew M. Gleason, associate professor of Mathematics, annually choose three members for the team, which has placed among the top three teams in the country each year since...