Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morgan, William Randolph Hearst, Yale University and the Museum of the City of New York another group of 29 historical portraits of first importance. Present were a good Gilbert Stuart Washington of the Vaughan type (red nose and right side of the face), Greuze's famed portrait of Benjamin Franklin, now the property of Mrs. Arthur Lehman, and Benjamin West's unfinished group of the signing of the Treaty of Peace with England in 1783 from the Morgan LIbrary. Interesting because the subject is so seldom seen was a portrait of Grecian-nosed Theodosia Burr by John Vanderlyn...
Milton Gold '39; Emanuel Labes '37; Benjamin I. Schwarts '33; and William J. Sullivan...
...belief that if a childless couple adopt a baby they may soon after produce one of their own is as old as the Bible. Abraham's Sarah bore Isaac 14 years after Ishmael entered their Canaan tent. Jacob's Rachel finally bore Joseph and Benjamin after Jacob begat ten sons and a daughter by other women of his tenthold. A reasoned explanation of such phenomena was offered last week by a zoologist of Burlington...
...amiable dawn. The sunny and warm, outdoors a few birds voices, up and bathe and into the Dining Hall just in time for breakfast. Back in the Attic and the papers all read, the Vagabond picks up his Foerster. John Smith, Wm. Bradford, roger Williams, Cotton Mather, Samuel Sewall, Benjamin Franklin. John Dickinson, Thomas Paine...
Apparent reason for this agitation on behalf of the onion was this year's bumper onion crop, estimated at 45,000 carloads, compared to 30,000 in 1935. U. S. "Onion King" is Benjamin Balish, a big Manhattan produce jobber who was made chair man of the Onion Committee last week. Meantime, the possibilities of a contest for the unsavory job of being U. S. "Onion Queen" remained unexplored. Last week in Denver, however, a seed dealer named Armin Barteldes, elated by a record seven- acre yield of 227,558 Ib. of onion sets (small onions fortransplanting), betook himself...