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...name, as 100,000 readers of Author Will Durant's Story of Philosophy might now guess, was Baruch de Espinosa-Spinoza, for short. "With the judgment of the angels and the sentence of the saints" he was anathematized, execrated, cursed, cast out and cut off by the exiled people of Israel. His studies, once the pride of the synagogue, had led him to a mechanistic philosophy of life. He was not the first original thinker Jewry had disowned. Spinoza secluded himself and set up as an optometrist, a grinder of fine lenses. At his leisure he smoked a pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sub Specie Aeternitatis | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...nine Senior members of the squad who will be lost by graduation are, W.P. Ellison, E.C. Clark, J.B. Durant, C.D. Coady, C.S. Gross, Nathaniel Hamlen, C.I. Wylde, R.S. Scott and Izadore Zarakov...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BIGELOW WILL NOT RETURN AS COACH OF HOCKEY TEAM | 3/1/1927 | See Source »

...letter-winners on the Harvard squad included Tudor, the one Crimson Sophomore in the contest; Morrill, who played brilliantly, and Adams, who replaced him in the closing minutes; and Durant, who charged on to the ice, took a shot at the Yale net, gave an Eli attacker a terrific bump against the boards and went off the ice again. Stanley, a Sophomore, was the only man on the squad not to see action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON ATTACK TOO MUCH FOR YALE | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...summary: HARVARD YALE Tudor, Gross, Durant, Chase l.w. r.w. Frey Roby Scott, Chase c. c. Vaughan, Herrmann Zarakov, Hamlen r.w. l.w. Robinson, Knight Ellison, Howard l.d. r.d. Ryan, Cady Clark, Coady r.d. l.d. Noble Morrill, Adams g. g. Hurd, Warner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON ATTACK TOO MUCH FOR YALE | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

Married. Adelaide Brevoort Hutton, daughter of Financier Edward Francis Hutton, Chairman of Postum Cereal Co.; to Thomas Wells Durant of Guilford, Conn., in Manhattan. Orange blossoms brought from California by airplane decorated the altar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 31, 1927 | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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