Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alternative to the purchase of the rink, the MDC is considering a new method of freezing ice with low-cost, portable apparatus, Bowker revealed. Benjamin Fink, chief engineer of the MDC's division of parks, is consulting with Canadian engineers on this project...
...relations showed up at the age of eight, when he wrote an essay on the Boer War. "I hope the Boers will win the war," he concluded, "for the Boers are in the right and the British in the wrong." Grandfather John W. Foster (Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison) proudly had the work published, and to this day the 31-page pamphlet resides in some of the best U.S. libraries...
Many inaugurations have run into weather trouble. At Grant's second inauguration ball, the shivering guests danced with their overcoats on, and William Howard Taft's inauguration was attended by snow, sleet and storm. But probably the Presidents most plagued by the weather were the Harrisons. At Benjamin Harrison's inauguration in 1889, "rain," according to one account, "fell in torrents ... Pennsylvania Avenue was a moving ocean of umbrellas." Nevertheless, he allowed the ceremony to take place in the open, which was courageous considering what happened to his grandfather, William Henry Harrison, who appeared at his inauguration...
...Benjamin I. Goldberg, Boston attorney who represents the purchasers, most of them New Yorkers, said yesterday that the group is "definitely not interested" in continuing any form of sports at the Arena, after March...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Featuring Benjamin Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem...