Word: forbeses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Six years ago 64-year-old James Forbes Whiteford, a U.S. consulting engineer, got the bad news after an operation in London: he was dying of cancer. Whiteford began to live from day to day. He refused a job with the Ministry of Supply, sold his property in Britain, returned...
They are: Wallace B. Donham '98, George F. Baker Professor of Administration; Dr. Alexander Forbes '04, professor of Physiology; George S. Forbes '02, professor of Chemistry; Arthur B. Lamb '05, Erving Professor of Chemistry; Elmer D. Merrill, Arnold Professor of Botany; Clyde O. Ruggles '09, professor of Public Utility Management...
Professor George Forbes has taught here longer than any of the other retiring men, having joined the faculty in 1905. His namesake, Professor Alexander Forbes, has been at the University since 1910.
John Murray Forbes of Boston made a fortune in China before he was 24. Back home again, he built the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, acted as a Lincoln secret agent in the Civil War, and in 1885 opened a school near Boston. He called it Milton Academy, after the town, and...
Because this story of an immigrant Swedish family in San Francisco has appeared in magazine, book, and play form, most people remember Mama well. But any initial familiarity shouldn't prevent a look at the screen version, for this West Coast cupboard saga profits from retelling. Remaining within the casual...