Word: benjamin
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President Pusey's other degree will be conferred by Pennsylvania on Jan. 14, the 250th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin, that institution's founder. At the Founder's Day ceremony four other educators will be so honored: A. Whitney Griswold of Yale, Alvin D. Chandler of William and Mary, Thomas M. Knox of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and A. H. Smith, vice chancellor of Oxford University...
...novel is well organized. It begins with an important corpse, and the novelist's tactic is to take each of the mourners and riddle them with small shot. The corpse is that of Joseph Benjamin Chapin, and with the possible exception of the hero of Trollope's John Caldigate, he is the most greyly dull character to rear his trim, neat, empty head into modern literature...
Before election day in Kentucky last week Democratic Candidate Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler* predicted that he would be elected governor by a margin of 113,000 votes. Kentucky's best guessers scoffed that Happy's estimate was characteristically too high, guessed that he would win by no more than 70,000. When the votes were counted, it turned out that even Happy's happy estimate had been too cautious. He ran up a total of 457,185 votes to beat Republican Candidate Edwin R. Denney by 131,353; the biggest majority a candidate for governor ever piled...
...shares of American Airlines alone to support the market during the cardiac break, at one point was $163,000 in the hole. ¶John Coleman, 53, head of Adler, Coleman & Co. (53 stock issues, including American Tobacco, Armour, Motorola). ¶Benjamin Einhorn, 48, partner in Astor & Rose, which handles Sperry Rand and 14 other stocks...
...football history unfolded on the field, a big, shaggy man walked stolidly back and forth in front of the Michigan bench. Under similar pressures, other big-time coaches kick water buckets, curse officials, bully their assistants, and alternately cheer and chew out their players. Michigan's Benjamin Oosterbaan, 49, seems as imperturbable as a 50-yard stripe. But his men know that, inside, he suffers. Says one: "He looks like a character out of a Russian novel...