Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CRIMSON's story on the restoration of Harvard Hall, reference is made to one of Winthrop's physics students as Benjamin Thompson, "the future Lord Rutherford...
...Although Benjamin Thompson, a native of Woburn (who by the way used to walk to Harvard daily with his friend Loammi Baldwin, the discoverer of the Baldwin apple) was long-lived, he did not live into the 20th Century...
Higgledy-piggledy, Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President, Was, and, as such...
...adult life in the 1760s as a saddle maker and clock mender, switched to portraiture only after he discovered that he could earn as much as ?10 per painting, which was much "better than with my other trades." When he went to London to perfect his technique with Benjamin West, he was irritated by the highflown esthetic palaver that he heard. "It is generally an adopted opinion," he noted disdainfully, "that genius for the fine arts is a particular gift and not an acquirement...
Producers Benjamin and Kleinerman first envisioned the program as a limited project of perhaps six specials, but found after four months of research that they had material enough for a full series. Now scheduled for at least 16 segments, the program will explore oceanography, the megalopolis, transportation, housing, computers, demography, education and leisure...