Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have ex-Mayors in our city council. I see no reason why we should have ex-presidents of the Association on the assembly. . . . Men who once represented the feeling of their local membership do not always continue to do so. Take the historic case of Benedict Arnold, for instance...
...When in 1920 Pope Benedict XV looked about for a patron saint for airmen, he had not far to seek. At Loreto, overlooking the Adriatic, stood a Holy House which, by legend, was the onetime residence of the Virgin Mary in Nazareth. When in 1263 the Turks threatened it with destruction, a squadron of angels is supposed to have picked up Mary's house and flown it to a place near Fiume, thence to Loreto. By the Pope's decree the Blessed Virgin Mary of Loreto became "special patron with God of all things aeronautic...
...scientists last week called these three the leading women scientists of the country and the equals of 247 topnotch men selected from the names recorded in the forthcoming Biographical Directory of American Men of Science (fifth edition).* Dr. Benedict was "shocked'' at the small number of women named. Professor Morgan received the news with pleased surprise...
Miss Hyman and Miss Morgan know each other. Neither knows Mrs. Benedict. Professor Morgan, 50, is a short, trim woman with slightly grey bobbed hair, blue eyes. Since 1906 she has taught zoology at Mount Holyoke (except for two years at Cornell), has headed her department since 1916. During school hours she habitually wears a tailored skirt, shirtwaist, tie, white "physician's" coat. She moves briskly about her laboratories, lectures her classes in clear, crisp tones. Her recent writings for learned publications have dealt with the winter habits and yearly food consumption of adult spotted newts. But her favorite...
Columbia's Dr. Ruth Fulton Benedict, 46, is assistant professor of anthropology, a specialist in the folklore, mythology and religion of Southwest U. S. Indians. Her husband, Professor Stanley Rossiter Benedict, 49, is a Cornell chemist. They have no children. Reflected Mrs. Benedict last week: "I believe women have scientific ability. But there are lots of difficulties confronting them. Marriage and children, for example. . . . Then there is the difficulty of positions. They won't take women in men's colleges or in co-educational undergraduate colleges. That limits women scientists to women's colleges or museums...