Word: benjamin
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...chief architect of De Valera's new Fianna Fail (Heroes of Destiny) Party, which came to power in 1932 and has been in office almost continually ever since. At 32, Lemass was the youngest member of De Valera's Cabinet and earned the affectionate Biblical sobriquet "Benjamin" (after Jacob's youngest son). Though Dev had taught mathematics-and is fervently believed by many fond compatriots to be one of the 13 men on earth who comprehend the theory of relativity-the Taoiseach had neither head nor heart for economics, and left Benjamin to run his ministry...
...baron who kidnaped a bishop in a dispute over land, and to make amends endowed a hostel for 16 indigent scholars at Oxford. The resulting college went on to harbor such notables as John Wycliffe and Adam Smith, but its star did not really rise until the advent of Benjamin Jowett, the great classicist who took over as master in 1870, molding men and minds for 23 years...
...Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, professor of History and Government, explained that, although many of the unaligned nations "have more in common with our opponents than with us," their leaders are too determined "to be masters in their own bailiwicks" to submit to the control of either Moscow or Peking...
Quincy: David Josiah Ballard, Benjamin A. Batson, Jr., Joseph E. Clements, Richard D. Copaken, Leonard Lloyd Eliman, Stephen R. Fenster, Todd A. Gitlin, Michael E. Goldberg, Leon I. Jacobson, David E. Levy, Roy M. MacLeod, II, Joseph P. Newhouse, David H. Sohmalz, Charles A. Stevenson, Brian A. Thompson, Richard E. Wilson...
Some prominent educators from the class are: Francis Keppel, former Dean of the Harvard School of Education and now U.S. Commissioner of Education: Courtney Craig Smith, President of Swarthmore College and American Secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Committee: F. Skiddy on Stade, Dean of Freshmen at Harvard: and Professors Benjamin Schwartz and Cedric Whitman, both at Harvard: and professors Benjamin Schwartz and Cedric Whitman, both at Harvard. There are also in the class 105 lawyers and judges, 68 physicians, one airplane pilot, and one railroad engineer...