Word: elihu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours before, Taft managers had reluctantly admitted to themselves that they would not be able to persuade the convention to maintain the ruling laid down by Elihu Root in 1912: that contested delegations seated by the national committee may participate in a full convention vote on any contest save their own. In last-moment desperation, Taft Leaders Tom Coleman and Dave Ingalls offered to give up their fight for the Root ruling if Ikemen would agree not to challenge the qualifications of seven of the 13 contested delegates from Louisiana. By this time, the argument had moved into full view...
Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, Berzelius, Book and Snake, Elihu, and Wolfs-head, Yale's six societies, will claim 90 of the Eli's most "important" juniors. When quotas are filled, windows are slammed to indicate that the tapping has been completed, and the 400 or so juniors still in the courtyard begin to file...
Closed greeted enthusiastically the appearances of Head Coach Jerry Kanter, former Kilot football star Joks McNamara, and their illustrious founder Elihu Closed...
Three Open favorites put in personal appearances: head coach Dike Hyde former Kirkland player Slug Dolas, and Elihu Open himself...
...town of Sessamee by an association of maple sugar merchants of the Vermont region who felt a need for an institution of learning which would crystallize amorphous theories of colonial America into a rational pattern of individual conduct. Chief among the early gifts was one of 654 pounds from Elihu Open, an affluent London merchant, who little realized that his modest gift would result in the naming of the infant school in his honor...