Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman team defeated the UMass harriers, 23 to 36. Like the varsity, they lost first place, but took nine of the first 13 positions. Four seconds behind the UMass winner Erik Dahle came Jim Schlaeppe in 14:59. He was followed by Bill Thompson in 15:06, and Dick Benjamin, who paced the 21 freshman runners for more than half of the three mile race...
...later occasion, the Supreme Court, at a time when its membership included many jurists who have deservedly won reputations for their devotion to civil liberty, rather scoffed at the privilege . . . Justice [Benjamin] Cardozo, writing for the court, said 'This [privilege] too might be lost and justice still to be done ... No doubt there would remain the need to give protection against torture, physical or mental. Justice, however, would not perish if the accused were subject to a duty to respond to orderly inquiry.' This language was concurred in by Justices Hughes, Stone, Brandeis, Roberts and Black...
...Room. From Harvard history, he found ample precedent for trouble. On a stormy night in 1764, all but 404 volumes of the 125-year-old library were destroyed by fire. In 1831, Librarian Benjamin Peirce complained that the library was so crowded that "many of the books . . . have been excluded from their proper places by the want of room." For years, the lament was the same, and even after Mrs. George D. Widener gave Harvard a vast new building in memory of her son, who went down on the Titanic, the space problem loomed again...
...Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler is back from political oblivion. When the final returns from Kentucky's Democratic gubernatorial primary (TIME, Aug. 8) were counted last week, Happy had the nomination by an 18,500-vote length over his sober young opponent, Judge Bert T. Combs...
...island of I Love Me, a rich and decadent democracy presided over by King Capricorn, Prime Minister Benjamin Bullfrog Secretary of State Ebenezer Muddle and Lord Chancellor Marmaduke Malfeasance, is threatened with invasion by Odioso, dictator of the land of We Hate You: Odioso first raises the passionate challenge of his have-not state: Give us our share That is our prayer. Just as the rivers, oceans and air Just as the wind Is for mankind So is your wealth, my people find...