Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frederick S. Armstrong, Jr. '39 of Weymouth was awarded the annual John Osborne Sargent Prize of $200 for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace by an undergraduate...
...Pennsylvania back into Ohio. At the treaty of peace, Cresap was accused of having murdered the family of a friendly Indian named Logan. He paid no attention to the charges and soon was summoned to raise a company of riflemen for the Revolutionary War. His company marched from Frederick, Maryland, to Boston in twenty-two days. In the fall of 1775, Captain Cresap died in New York City, was given a great funeral and buried in Trinity Churchyard...
...England, toward the end of the Century, a boatbuilder named Pocock, among whose products was a craft which Explorer Sir Henry Stanley used for navigating rivers in Africa, took to building racing shells. His son Frederick Pocock built shells for Eton, Oxford, Cambridge. Another son, William, became the world's sculling champion, crew coach at Westminster School. Frederick Pocock's son 'George won the United Kingdom Handicap at 17, in a 26-lb. pine shell he had built himself. His daughter Lucy was women's sculling champion of England in 1910-11. In 1911, George Pocock...
...newshawks trooped into Mr. Ball's suite, they glanced about for some of the familiar financial faces that reports had linked to the deal-Boston's old Frederick Henry Prince, Cleveland's Cyrus Eaton, General Motors' Donaldson Brown. None was there. Talking in a corner was Erie R. R.'s Chairman Charles Leininger Bradley but he was obviously on hand to talk to his new bosses. Old Mr. Ball, neat, spare, paternal, stood chatting with newshawks, giving as good as he received, just as he did in Washington when Montana's Wheeler...
...Letters,* which critics recognized as belonging with such classic literary rebukes as Zola's J'Accuse. Like most such spontaneous expressions of intellectual integrity, An Exchange of Letters was called into being by a relatively small occasion. Last December Dr. Mann received a curt note from the Frederick-William University, of Bonn, stating that since "Herr Thomas Mann, writer," had lost his citizenship, the University was obliged to withdraw its honorary degree. Author Mann's reply to this last straw was first published in the Nation, was reprinted by his U. S. publisher to coincide with...