Word: braxton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he can't persuade her to switch back into banditry, and finally meets his match in a protracted barefisted bout with the U.S. marshal (Randolph Scott) after shooting it out unsuccessfully in a lonely building. The locale: the boom town of Guthrie, and the ghost town of Braxton, just before & after the 1889 land rush into Oklahoma Territory...
...postwar center of intellectual gravity. His colleague, Dean Robert De Blois Calkins, of Columbia's School of Business, predicted that foreigners will want to study in U.S. universities the business methods emphasized by the U.S. war-production record. More reserved was Columbia's Graduate Dean George Braxton Pegram, who studied at Cambridge and Berlin. He thinks Europe and Russia will still draw foreign students in special fields...
...Hicks's hero is one George Swain, a decent, middle-aged fellow of the small town of Braxton, N.H., who submits to a great doctor's experiment in "suspending animation'' for a century. Anesthetized in 1940, he wakes up in 2040 -the first, as he later learns, of eight similar sleepers (the doctor hoped at least one would get through). A research scientist assigned to study his reactions encourages him to write a book about his discovery of the world of 2040, for the guidance of the seven other antiques when they wake...