Word: barker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stephen F. Barker of Virginia and G. E. Lane Owen of Oxford "will help to fill the place in the department vacated when Professor Willard Quine left for a year's leave of absence in California," Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity explained...
Author of a recently published philosophical study, Induction and Hypothesis, Barker will teach a middle group lecture course dealing with the philosophy of science, emphasizing methods of scientific induction...
...summer night a year ago, Jimmie Wilson, some moonshine under his belt, went to the back door of the home of Mrs. Estelle Barker, an elderly widow, in the dusty little town of Marion. As Wilson told it, he asked her to pay him in advance for some yard work he was supposed to do for her later that week, and she gave him some money. But as Estelle Barker, a white woman, told the story, Wilson threatened her into giving him money. And after he pocketed the $1.95, she said, he grabbed her and tried to ravish...
Wilson's court-appointed lawyer objected that Wilson was being tried for robbery, not intent to rape, and that Witness Barker's obviously inflammatory testimony "infuriates the minds" of the jury. But the court overruled the objection, allowed Mrs. Barker to tell her story. That decision doomed Defendant Wilson...
...first Tarzan who actually spoke whole sentences was Lex Barker, of the New York Social Register, who in 1948 replaced Johnny Weissmuller, the mobil-est Tarzan of them all. An Olympic champion and once the fastest swimmer in the world, Weissmuller also holds the record for longevity as the jungle hero: twelve versions over 16 years. Today's Tarzan is Gordon Scott, 30, with a 50-in. chest. A onetime lifeguard at a Las Vegas hotel, Scott is the first Tarzan in color and CinemaScope...