Word: erman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Princeton, he was Chairman of the Daily Princetonian, became a charter member of the TIME staff before he left college. At various times he has filled nearly every editorial post on TIME, had a hand in FORTUNE, LIFE, MARCH OF TIME (radio and newsreel). A keen golfer, fish erman, huntsman, he once made a hole in one at Stoke Poges. In 1937 he broke the North American record for tuna (821 Ib.) off the Nova Scotian coast in a storm. General Manpower was written shortly afterwards, between ducks and woodcock, on a ten-month sabbatical...
...there was to know about Egypt and the Hebrews. At Yale he got his M.A., would have got a Ph.D. if he had not been so impatient to learn more. It was Professor Harper, then at Yale, who sent him off to Berlin to study under famed Egyptologist Adolph Erman...