Word: augustus
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...final degree, the only Doctor of Science, was awarded to James Augustus Shannon, the educator and medical investigator who helped shape governmental policy toward medical research after World War II. Director of the National Institutes of Health from 1955 to 1968, he was associate director of the National Heart Institute from 1949 to 1952. In 1949, he received the Presidential Medal for Merit from President Truman...
This week, Christians around the world will hear the familiar words of Luke's Christmas story: the decree from Caesar Augustus, the shepherds in the fields, the "glory of the Lord" shining suddenly around them. But how accurate are those cherished images surrounding Jesus' birth? Luke, after all, comes third in the conventional sequence of the Gospels in the Bible-Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. That is also the order in which most churchgoers assume the Gospels were written. But if so, why would Matthew, who comes first, pass off the Nativity scene with a single sentence...
Sacks served as law clerk to U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals Justice Augustus N. Hand for a year after graduation from the Law School, and then clerked for Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter from...
...prison was in the news last July when two American congressmen found the "tiger cages" which had been kept secret for years by the Vietnamese government. The "tiger cages" visited by Congressmen William Anderson (D-Tenn.) and Augustus Hawkins (D-Calif.) were built by prison labor in 1939 under the direction of the French...
After graduating magna cum laude from the City College of New York in 1940, Sacks received his LL.B. magna cum laude from Harvard in 1948. He was law clerk to Judge Augustus N. Hand of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1948-49, and to Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter the following year...