Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Society and the first fire insurance company in America, win success as a diplomat and found the Saturday Evening Post two hundred years ago, would probably be broad minded enough not to be surprised at the most advanced developments of our scientific age. All these achievements are claimed for Benjamin Franklin by the descendant of his periodical in its 200th anniversary number. But it is probable that even he would have been incredulous if he had been told that in the twentieth century his immortality would depend not so much on his achievements as patriot and scientist...
...President Thomas Wilson Dunn of Roslindale. Fellowes Morgan Pruyn of Albany, New York. Benjamin Holt Ticknor II of New York City. John Newlin Trainer, Jr. of New York City...
...collection includes paintings of two Harvard men, famed as advocates in colonial times: Jeremiah Gridley, of the class of 1725, often called the "father of the Boston bar," and Benjamin Pratt, of the class of 1737, an eminent Boston lawyer and later chief justice of New York State. These two men were painted by Thomas Swibert of Boston, a famed American painter, ranked next to Copley in importance by many authorities on colonial artists...
...members of the winning team with their averages are; Benjamin Halpern '32, 92.90 percent; Arnold Isenberg '32, 92.30 percent; C. A. Brenner '32, 89.76 percent; H. L. Hinckley '32, 89.66 percent; P. H. Kozodoy '32, 88.83 percent; J. F. Ellsbree '32, 88.78 percent; Joseph Sawyer '32, 88.40 percent. The weighted average of the Boston Latin School is 90.09 percent...
...hangar and for the arrival of the pilot. He came, a small, slender young man. The aviators hailed him as "Benny." They knew him as the gas boy who filled their tanks at Curtiss Flying Field while he learned flying; the civilians respectfully called him Lt. Benjamin Mendez, of the Colombian Air Service. The seaplane was in the water, a green and yellow thing, labeled the Ricaurte after the Colombian patriot...