Word: erasmus
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...Charles Darwin did not originate the theory of evolution (it was evolved long before him by his grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, the Frenchman Jean Lamarck, Greek philosophers...
TIME'S mention in Letters of Ogontz, from which the well-known girls' school receives its name, does not reveal the origin of the name. Ogontz was an old Indian who served as a houseman in the home of my grandfather Erasmus Cooke at Sandusky, Ohio. My father often related to me how Ogontz used to carry him and also his cousin, the first Jay Cooke, piggie-back through the woods. When Jay Cooke and my father came to Philadelphia to enter the banking business, memories of Ogontz were so vivid that when Jay Cooke built his handsome...
Saul G. Marias of Brooklyn, New York and Erasmus Hall High; Matthews Hall...
...John's College, I understand, is a 100-book school whereas Harvard Library is a four-million-book place. The difference is that at St. John's they read them." --From "How to Read Two Books," by Erasmus G. Addlepate...
...almost a goddess. In the rational, optimistic centuries men were more concerned with plans than with chance, with just deserts than with lucky breaks. As darkness gathers again, interest in Fortune revives. This week, in The Tide of Fortune, Biographer Stefan Zweig (Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles, Erasmus of Rotterdam, etc.) examines twelve varied instances of unpredictable turns of chance. The book is reminiscent of the late William Bolitho's grandly oblique sketches of adventurers, Twelve Against the Gods. Typical of Zweig's jack pots, lucky & unlucky...