Word: elkin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several moments, Alexander Dunlop Lindsay of Oxford University stared at the departing figure of the young man with the coal scars on his face. The man, a Staffordshire miner named John Elkin, had left school at the age of ten; yet he had come a long way to hear Lindsay lecture on philosophy. "I heartily wish," sighed Lindsay, "that all my university students had a brain as good...
...will of Mrs. Mary Elkin Moritz of Lexington, Ky. left the bulk of her $20,000 estate to her cousin Roy T. Elkin, "provided that from this day on he does not add the 's' onto his name . . . His father started this foolishness years ago, much to the disgust of the Elkin family . . . Roy can take his choice...
Worth Two Cents. Credit for improving revision methods goes to Ohio-born, frog-voiced Elkin Harrison Powell, 54, president of Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. since 1934, and Editor Yust, a patient, diligent stringbean of a Pennsylvanian who joined the staff in 1930. In 1939, Yust started a revision schedule under which every article would be scrutinized at least twice a decade. As helpers in this job he has University of Chicago graduate students, paid in the form of $1,000 scholarships...
Four players are well over six feet. Hugh Hyde, a Groton lad, towers 6 ft., 4 in.; Donald Lutze, who went to Peddie, stands 6 ft., 1 1/2 in. above the ground; Dick Elkin, from Mayville, North Dakota, and George Burditt, hailing from La Grange, Illinois, measure...