Word: durants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dana Foundation made a good investment: Sidney Farber is clearly one of the best centers in the country," says Dr. John R. Durant, president of the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Pennsylvania...
Tracy Letts Durant, Okla...
...Will Durant, 96, Pulitzer-prizewinning historian and "biographer of mankind." His monumental, eleven-volume The Story of Civilization, one of the most popular history series ever published, was written with his wife of 68 years, Ariel, 83, who died just 13 days earlier...
Civilization," Durant once observed, "is a stream with banks." Most historians, he thought, concentrate on the stream, "which is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting." Durant was devoted to what happened on the banks. There, "unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry, whittle statues"-or write about...
DIED. Will Durant, 96, Pulitzer-prizewinning historian who collaborated with his wife Ariel in writing an eleven-volume magnum opus, The Story of Civilization; in Los Angeles (see EDUCATION...