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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gift, given by Mrs. E. C. Converse, her daughters Mrs. Benjamin Strong and Madam Antoinette Converse, and her son E. C. Converse, brings the Chemistry total to $2,553,775, which is within $446, 225 of the necessary amount...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Is Given $475,000 for Chemical Laboratory | 10/8/1924 | See Source »

...twelve tribes of Isreal are: Reuben, Simeon, Judah Issachar, Ephraim, Benjamin. Zebulun, Manasseh, Dan, Asher, Naphtali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Israel | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

...couse, the Benjamin Franklin hypothesis is the most reasonable. Someone, no doubt, was annoyed with Benjamin for some reason, and vented his wrath in this lasting fashion. Since the picture was found not far from a mail box, it is safe to assume that the Philadelphia stage had been delayed, and the Saturday Evening Post had not reached Cambridge on Thursday morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "BEDAMN, BEN!" | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

...gentleman dressed in colonial clothes was seen among the other ancient scrawls. Above the drawing was the inscription. "Bedamn, Ben", Archacologists of the University are puzzled regarding the exact meaning of "Bedamn", but as the picture portrays a somewhat portly gentleman, they deduce that "Ben" probably refers to Benjamin Franklin, and that the drawing was a tribute to him by one of his more ardent admirers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Bedamn, Ben" Says Inscription Unearthed by Workers on Massachusetts Hall, but No One Knows What It Means | 9/26/1924 | See Source »

...signers of the Declaration of Independence were constructive radicals of the same type. Most of these men were noted in the history of the Republic. Benjamin Franklin was a signer. Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Harrison, two other signers, subsequently became Presidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Great Men | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

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