Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wharf waited massive, balding Chairman Rosenthal and lean, nervy Chief Warden Hallett. Occasionally, when the breeze lifted the fog, they could see a medium-sized freighter at anchor a mile or so out in the harbor-the rescue ship. At about 8 o'clock, Dr. Daniel Hiebert, the Public Health Officer, went out to the ship in a Coast Guard boat, later called for Dr. Frank Cass to come out and lend a hand...
...Yank Is Cunning. Ace instructor at the School is Bert ("Yank") Levy, guerrilla virtuoso, onetime Wintringham assistant, and author of Guerrilla Warfare (TIME, Mar. 16). Levy is a dramatic, 120-pound, black-haired expert on the art of unmodified murder whom the British regard as a delightful combination of Daniel Boone and Jack the Ripper. His muscular nose was flattened and given a starboard twist in either World War I, a Nicaraguan revolution, the Spanish War or in one of his many personal encounters in civilian life. Levy specialties, as taught in both Britain and the U.S.: use of incendiaries...
...thundered Yale's late Professor Daniel Coit Gilman (later first president of Johns Hopkins) in 1867. Nobody took his thunderings very seriously, not even Professor Gilman; he eventually accepted nine honorary LL.D.s himself. Today U.S. colleges and universities hand out some 1,300 honorary degrees a year, four times as many as in Gilman 's day. Last week a brash young scholar proposed wholesale reforms in this big little business...
...Yale in 1723 set the style for the coming centuries by awarding the first honorary M.D. to a degreeless physician named Daniel Turner, who had given the college ?16 worth of books. (Wags quipped that the degree stood for Multum Donavit-"he gave much...
...Icicles sprouted in Hell," the Erie Railroad cheerfully announced last week, and the Erie declared a dividend of 50? a share on its common stock. It was the first common stock dividend the Erie had paid since 1866, back before Daniel Drew and Jay Gould wrecked the road; and it was only the second in all the 110-year history of the Erie and its predecessor (and reorganized) companies...