Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hell'') Sherman who was then simply a California banker and commander of the California militia. In the Civil War, Wistar was wounded four times, saw noteworthy action at Antietam, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg and elsewhere, was once deprived of his command because, he said, of the enmity of General Benjamin Butler...
...contract bridge replaced auction and auction players became hopelessly confused by contract's elaborate mathematics, more and more people turned to Mr. Culbertson for instruction. In 1930 the Culbertsons were taken in hand by Manhattan Pressagent Benjamin Sonnenberg, and before long they had their pictures in the papers and the reading public knew that Mr. Culbertson slept in silk pajamas and smoked monogrammed cigarets. The next year, in a blaze of newspaper publicity instigated by hard-working Mr. Sennenberg, the Culbertsons challenged Sidney S. Lenz, who held different views about the opening two-bid, to a duel...
Unlike political conventions, scientific conventions are assembled not to agree on a common program of action but to toss individual contributions into a hopper of common learning. The preoccupations of the American Philosophical Society, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 for '"promoting useful knowledge," concern almost every kind of science. Preoccupation of the American Physical Society, founded in 1899, is straightforward physics, let the philosophical chips fall where they may; but physics may include anything from the electrical conductivity of a safety pin to the fringes of the universe. Last week the American Philosophical Society assembled in Philadelphia...
...Benjamin E. Dillingham '39, outstanding veteran, is expected to report in the near future...
Lorimer Robey '38, Wellaston; Harvey A. Robinson '38, Arlington; Isadore N. Rosenberg '40, Boston; Sidney Rosenberg '40, Revere; Sidney D. Ross '39, Lynn; Leon N. Satenstein '39, Malden; Lorey A. Schreiber '39, Plymouth; William F. Schreiter '38, Walpole; Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, Roxbury; Douglas H. Sears '40, West Newton; Julius L. Shack '39, Mattapan; Henry Sherman '38, Mattapan; William Siegel '39, Mattapan; Eliot N. Silverman '38, Brookline; Theodore Singer '38, Dorchester; Daniel T. Skinner '38, Roxbury; Ralph I. Smith '38, Braintree...