Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Died. Benjamin Crandall, 103, self-styled "inventor of the hobby horse"* at Buffalo...
...Harrison, now 67, who went into court. She is unique among the widows of Presidents, for although she lived two years in the White House she was never First Lady of the Land. When Benjamin Harrison took office as President in 1889 his first wife (Caroline Lavinia Scott) was alive. She died in the White House in 1892, leaving a son and a daughter...
...Morse, who was Benjamin Pierce Instructor in Mathematics in 1919-1920, has been made assistant professor in the Mathematics Department...
...bidding was determined. Miss Belle da Costa Greene, librarian of the J. P. Morgan Library† opened the contest with an offer of $50,000. Bids jumped at once by $5,000 each until William Evarts Benjamin, supposedly on behalf of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, called $85,000. Thereafter he had to compete only with Dr. Rosenbach. At $100,000 the sedate yet tense crowd cheered. Dr. Rosenbach offered $104,000. Mr. Benjamin covered him with $105,000. Then came "$106,000" from the Doctor. Mr. Benjamin kept silent...
...discussed more often in history than in literature courses will be the subject of Dr. Maynadier's lecture at 11 o'clock this morning in English 29b. That Benjamin, Disraeli should merit a lecture in a course on the history of the English novel may seem strange; that any such fancier of academic odds and ends as my wandering self should make it a point to go to Sever 35 to find out why can seem nothing but natural...