Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give a free field to all the finest qualities of human nature, for that is the only salvation for democracy. Think how Oliver Wendell Holmes enlarged the conception of human sagacity, penetration, and discrimination combined with great power, of expression in both prose and poetry. Think how Asa Gray, Benjamin Pierce, and others, were the leaders of thought in science and especially in American science and the methods of teaching...
...current (March) issue of McClure's are not well known. Their names: Ledyard M. Bailey, Orville M. Kile, Donald McGibeny, Alain Gerbault. Edmund Snell, Captain Frank Hurley, Ethel Comstock Bridgman, Margaret Wheeler Ross, Frederick A. Thompson, Mary Shannon, Major "Tom" Vigors, Zoe Beckley, John Randolph Hornady, Harry Benjamin, M.D., Anonymous, Franklin K. Sprague...
Died. Frank Tilford, 71, President of Park & Tilford, famed grocers; in Florida, after a long illness. He was the youngest son of John M. Tilford, who, in 1835, with the assistance of a fellow clerk, Joseph Park, left the famed grocer Benjamin Albro, to "organize a little shop of their own." Frank entered the business at an early age, succeeded Hobart J. Park in 1906 as President and Treasurer. In 1923 he sold the business to David A. Schulte, head of the Schulte Retail (Cigar) Stores...
...thoroughly American and determined in her admiration of things Nordic. A great-grandniece of Benjamin Franklin, she is not far from the stream of American literary tradition. Her sense of plot is extraordinary. This journalistic ability is especially evident in Black Oxen, although I'm not sure that I consider that indubitably readable book exactly in Ben Franklin's line...
...Benjamin G. Lamme, chief engineer, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., mathematical calculator of a practical railway motor and many other machines...