Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Benjamin Franklin founded the Saturday Evening Post. George Horace Lorimer made it great. The Post is 196 years old. Lorimer has been its editor for just 25 years. Last week he celebrated this 25th anniversary with a plethora of flowers and innumerable congratulations...
This was one of six typical cases presented by Dr. Harry Benjamin, of Manhattan, to the New York Academy of Medicine to prove the success of his treatment of rejuvenation. His report is based on the cases of 70 New York women whom he has treated. No complete restoration of beauty is promised by Dr. Benjamin, but rather a revival of mental and nervous vitality. Forty-five is considered the age at which women should attempt to regain their lost youth...
...Benjamin is a glandular specialist and in 20% of his cases uses a serum from goats' glands. In the other 80%, however, the X-ray treatment is used. The majority of patients are school teachers and nurses who feel the need of renewed energy to carry on their work. In many cases hair which has turned gray is supplanted by hair of the original color...
...Pound Class.--P. R. Grant 2G.B. defeated Benjamin Elsner...
...name of the first owner the book contains the autographs of several subsequent possessors. The first of these was John Eliot of the class of 1685, the Apostle's grandson, who inherited the work from his grandfather at the latter's death in 1690. He sold it to Benjamin Wadsworth, who graduated from Harvard in 1690, and was President of the College from 1725 to 1737. Nathaniel Williams of the class of 1695, headmaster of the Boston Latin School from 1708 to 1734, was the next to have the book in his possession. Following his death the book changed hands...