Word: elisha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Artist Rowe's Isaiah, Jeremiah, Elisha, etc. appear as sickly souls ... All the marks of the machine age are upon them...
Born. To James Elisha ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, 40, hulking (6 ft. 8 in., 250-lb.), clowning governor of Alabama, and Jamelle Moore Folsom, 22, former secretary in the Alabama State Highway Department: their first child (he has two daughters by his first wife who died in 1944), a son; in Montgomery, Ala. Name: James Elisha Jr. Weight...
William and Mary's chapter didn't last long, though. It dissolved with the approach of Cornwallis' British troops after four years and 67 meetings. But one Elisha Parmele, a Harvard graduate, received characters for branch chapters at Yale and Harvard before the original Phi Bota Kappa went into extinction...
There are other less illustrious but equally interesting personages in Old Granary: Elisha Brown, for instance, who in 1769 barricaded himself in his home and for 17 days successfully "oppofed a whole Britifh Regt. in their violent attempt to FORCE him from hif legal habitation." And there is the tomb of Benjamin Woodbridge, who died in the first duel fought in Boston, after quarreling with his friend over a game of cards. The friend skipped the country in a British vessel and died of grief in France...
...Elisha Otis' original safety catch has been succeeded by scores of automatic speed and leveling controls. Until 1945, Otis boasted that not one of its passenger elevators had ever fallen because of broken cables. That year an Army bomber, bursting through the Empire State Building between the 78th and 79th floors, severed the cables and all the safety devices on one Otis elevator, which plummeted to the subbasement. Even so, the operator (who was alone) got out alive...