Word: audubon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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HARLAN L. CLAPP Audubon...
...campus of Jefferson Military College near Natchez, Miss, stands a monument inscribed: "Aaron Burr tried . . . under these oaks, 1807; Andrew Jackson camped here, 1812-1815; Jefferson Davis a student here, 1815; John James Audubon taught here, 1822; Lafayette reviewed cadets, 1825." But in spite of its historic past, Jefferson Military College had fallen on hard times. Classroom walls were peeling ; desks were worn beyond repair. There were hardly enough students (48) in its high-school classes to keep the place going. Then, a few weeks ago, along came Judge George W. Armstrong...
...century, from the meticulous White Hall Plantation painted by Christophe Colomb about 1800, to a mist-shrouded painting of the river at night, done in 1905 by Frederick Oakes Sylvester. Between the two were a handful of great and near-great artists: naturalist-painters such as John James Audubon, Missouri's George Caleb Bingham who immortalized the river's roistering flatboatmen, and Indian Painters Charles Bodmer and George Catlin...
...years, Emma Shipman has served her church obscurely but well, as a Christian Science practitioner and teacher, a member of many committees and a writer of many articles for Christian Science periodicals. In her spare time she is an avid gardener and a member of the Audubon Society. This week, the Mother Church elected Emma Shipman president for the coming year...
...same with Washington, or Daniel Boone, or John James Audubon, or Henry Clay. But in Sunday school, he was told of "a Figure for whom was made an infinitely more enormous claim than for any of the others." The picture showed him as "a pale and posturing person with immoderately long, silky hair . . . who clutched a kind of diaphanous drapery gracefully about him" with an expression of "simpering vapidity...