Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Year of Our Lord 1718 an affluent London merchant who had been born in the American colonies received several visits from a Bostonian named Jeremiah Dummer about a struggling institution of higher learning in Say-brook, Connecticut called The Collegiate School. These visits, along with some very persuasive letters from another Bostonian named Increase Mather, succeeded in convincing the London merchant to give a substantial donation to the small school, which was promptly named Yale College in his honor. Today that college celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding...
...took enough interest in the outside world to get himself elected president of his class in its final year. In 1922 he married the sister-in-law of a faculty member, handsome Carmel Bentwich. He has three children: Hadassah, 28: now married to a mathematician and living in Connecticut; Ezra, 24, in his second year at Columbia University's School of International Affairs, and Emunah, 19, who is training for social work...
...couple of good sophomore backs in Clasby and Culver. Maybe next year you'll get a Houston to put up ahead of them, and you'll win four or five. But until you do, I'd sooner see you lose to Princeton by four touchdowns than beat Connecticut by one. Alan Lindsey...
From New Mexico, McCarthy resorted to jeering. "I wouldn't take the time to answer Connecticut's odd little mental midget who is used as a megaphone for the Communist party-line type of smear." Instead, he orated for more than an hour to the assembled Republicans. Many of them had opposed inviting him. But after hearing Joe reiterate his familiar charges and watching him flourish "documentation," the delegates stood and cheered. At meeting's end, the 17 state chairmen unanimously and formally pledged McCarthy their support as Joe hustled off for more speechifying at the annual...
...that took coins of higher mintage. These days, she said, "most children do not show much appreciation for anything less than a dime." ¶ The bug shield-that plastic gadget on the snouts of innumerable cars, designed to deflect bugs (and snow) from the windshield-received a legal setback. Connecticut banned it on the ground that it obstructed the driver's view of the road. ¶ The city of Frederick, Md. (pop. 18,000), whose place in literature was made secure by the legendary skirmish between Stonewall Jackson and Nonagenarian Barbara Fritchie, tidied up some leftover history. Two years...