Word: benedict
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Thus wrote John Joseph Henry, rifleman of Captain Matthew Smith's company, concerning Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec in 1775. He could not know, dictating these opening lines of his journal to his daughter thirty-five years after the expedition, that one day the exploits of Arnold and his men would be the background of one of the greatest of American historical novels--Keneth Roberts' "Arundel". In "Arundel", Arnold's march to Quebec forms the principle episode of a book alight with the fire and energy of the Revolutionary period, an episode which created such interest in the expedition...
...rifleman Henry's wish that Arnold's march be remembered as a stirring feat is realized with the publication of "March to Quebec". The book contains the diaries and journals of officers and common soldiers, including the journal of Henry himself, and the letters of Benedict Arnold which he dispatched during the expedition. There are accounts from members of all four of the division of the army, which followed closely upon each other. Some of the diaries are quite technical, dealing principally with the topography of the land traversed and the nature of river currents, while others are written...
President of the Federation is Clarence B. Benedict, a retired patent attorney of Brookline, Mass., who will be president of the new Roycroft Community. The jobs which Infinite Science is to provide in East Aurora will be much the same as those of the old Roycrofters, but more numerous - up to 1,000 when the shops are running at Infinite capacity with three scientific shifts...
...called peritoneoscopy. was developed 37 years ago by Dr. Georg Kelling of Dresden, was neatly perfected four years ago by Dr. John Carroll Ruddock of Los Angeles. Last fortnight the New England Journal of Medicine printed an article on this useful subject, by Boston's Dr. Edward Benson Benedict, whose experience confirmed Dr. Ruddock's-that with a peritoneoscope he can make an accurate diagnosis of ailments within the abdomen in almost every case, whereas clinical diagnosis scores only 64%. However, peritoneoscopists will not risk prying into an inflamed abdomen...
...meeting in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room, the Classical Club elected Dr. Benedict Einarson, instructor in Greek and Latin, as President for next year, and Frank V. DuBois '39 as Secretary and Treasurer...