Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest of the floor, barred from the public's view, is all but finished. It is filled with the block-long city room, where Managing Editor Edwin L. James's staff nightly assembles all the news that's fit to print. Executives sit at the south end, a full block away from some of their reporters. Turner Catledge, assistant to James, was given a pair of opera glasses by his staff to survey the farthest reaches of the room. Near by sits City Editor David Joseph, a shy, balding, quiet-spoken bachelor of 61. His public-address...
...scallopers took their catch to New York, where Dr. Edwin H. Colbert of the American Museum of Natural History identified the tooth as the upper left third molar of a mastodon (a proto-elephant of the Pleistocene Age that tramped North America some 30,000 to 250,000 years...
...someone else" referred to in your article happened to be my great-great-grandfather's brother, Dr. Edwin James. Let me quote from a booklet by L. H. Pammel...
...EDWIN P. JAMES...
...Nobel Prize committee passed over Mark Twain, Ibsen, Hardy, Gorky, Chekhov, Conrad, Henry James, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Arnold Bennett, Willa Gather, Swinburne, George Meredith, Zola, Proust, Joyce, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Rainer Maria Rilke. Its greatest oversight: although it was established in 1901, and Tolstoy did not die until 1910, it never gave an award to the greatest novelist of them...