Word: ephraim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...romance between bees and flowers is not always gentle. Alfalfa flowers, for instance, can be brutal. Last week Dr. Ephraim Hixson of the University of Nebraska was trying to make alfalfa flowers kinder to bees. His object, of course, was more alfalfa seed...
Many a consumer, stung with high-priced, shoddy goods, has fervently wished he could tell off the manufacturer. Last week, mild-mannered Ephraim Freedman, who runs the testing laboratory for R. H. Macy & Co., got the job done. "Shortsightedness and selfish interests are hampering the production and delivery of the kinds of goods consumers require at prices they can afford to pay," said he at a textile symposium in Manhattan...
...McLean chair, being awarded to Professor Brinton, is one of the oldest in the University; its previous holders include Jared Spark, 1815, also a president of the College, and Ephraim Whitman Gurney '52, for whom the Gurney chair is named. The last McLean Professor was William Scott Ferguson, who became an emeritus last spring...
Gallery-goers who had come to expect murky realism of Charles Ephraim Burchfield were in for a surprise. Artist Burchfield has had a violent shift of purpose. One of the top half-dozen painters of the "American Scene," Burchfield, at 52, has decided that the look of a scene is not enough. Said he last week, as his first Manhattan show since 1943 opened: "Subject matter can be distracting; I'm trying to paint more what I feel...
Died. Arthur Cheney Train, 70, novelist-creator of shrewd, lovable Yankee Lawyer Ephraim Tutt: after long illness; in Manhattan. Said Author Train ruefully: "As between Tutt and myself, Tutt will be remembered as the real person and I as the fictional character." Died. Moman Pruiett, 73, shaggy-browed Oklahoma criminal lawyer: of pneumonia; in Oklahoma City. Sent to jail for robbery at 18, he vowed "I'll open the doors of your damned prisons!" Later he became so expert at bringing tears to backwoods jurors' eyes (343 murder cases, 303 acquittals, no executions) that he was considered...