Word: columbus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chicago in 1912 from Dowagiac, Mich., Webster Miller got a job on the American's police beat. He cut his first name for euphony, soon hid his timidity. When in 1916 Pershing went into Mexico after Villa, Webb Miller went along. United Press hired him, sent him to Columbus, N. Mex., Mexico City, then to Washington. One July day in Washington (1917) he got a telephone call: "Catch the 4 o'clock train to New York. You'll get here at 9 and will sail at midnight [for London]." He covered the Irish Rebellion, flew over...
...School William H. Baker Edith Alexander, Newton Stephen P. Baldwin Joy Kidder, Concord Benjamin N. Barksdale Janet Harwood, Beaver Richard S. Barrows Helen Francis, Wellesley George Bartlett Ann Folsom, Hingham Robert S. Benshimol Patricia Dadmon, Arlington Bernard R. Benson Sybil Hart, Packer Institute Robert G. Bigelow Marian Prentiss, Columbus, Ohio Carroll Binder, Jr. Carol Jones, Wellesley Nathaniel L. Blanchard Lee Burnett, Southborough Charles M. Bliss Margaret Soule, Wellesley Richard M. Bloch Betty Hinkle, Brookline Edward J. Broderick Mary Ferguson, Clinton John C. Bullard Hephizibah McWeebles, Dunkling-on-Charles John M. Bullitt Helen Sarazin, Cambridge William E. Bunce Frances Fuhrer, Bradford...
...young man, George Stevens, a pale young Negro, had worked as a porter in an Akron hotel, had got a job in a stove company. His aptitude for mechanics had attracted the attention of an Akron industrial pioneer, Ohio Columbus Barber, founder of the city of Barberton, Ohio, who hired him. Soon he became chief engineer at Barberton's Portage Strawboard Co. Later he moved to Indiana, worked at several plants, migrated to Hartford City, which had long smugly accepted the fact that it had not a single Negro resident...
Married. Bryan Wallace, British scenarist, son of the late thriller-author, Edgar Wallace; and Wydoline Van Dyke Jones of Columbus, Ohio; in Rome. Because the State Department would not give her a passport to go to England, they had to go to Italy to meet and marry...
When rangy, kindly Dr. Gesell began his observations in 1911, child behavior was, scientifically speaking, largely a subject for clucks and coos. Dr. Gesell charted away like a Columbus, let others name his landfalls. Today many a modern theory about child upbringing (notably child feeding) is based on his findings. Dr. Gesell's own conclusions...