Word: austin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nora Potter, who goes to parties and pays calls, and sits by quietly, with nothing to say, while Mama does all the talking." Mama really talked incessantly, but now that Nora was up North, she too found her tongue, and ended by talking too much. She told her cousin Austin King, who was already married, that she loved him, and pinned her heart so conspicuously to her sleeve that his wife Martha and the rest of the townspeople of Draperville, Ill. couldn't miss...
...times, he seemed more like a Hoosier schoolmaster than an eminent historian. He was long and lean, baggily dressed, and always in need of a haircut-"a poor professor," he liked to say, "on his way from obscurity to oblivion." But when Charles Austin Beard threw back his head, squinted down his long nose, and began to lecture at Columbia University, students jammed in to hear him. And when he perched on the edge of a desk to speak of his own research ("Now I'll tell you what I found out last night"), historians from all over...
Died. Dr. Charles Austin Beard, 73, dean of U.S. historians; of aplastic anemia; in New Haven, Conn, (see EDUCATION...
...GILMAN Austin...
...University of Wisconsin's Frederic Austin Ogg, 70, tall, shy political scientist, co-author of the widely used Ogg & Ray textbooks on government (total sales: 1,500,000 copies), longtime managing editor of the American Political Science Review, a faculty member for 34 years...