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...league. His point output: 60, tops in the league. The Giants had done all they could to stop him: his left arm was bandaged and swollen; there were purple bruises over and under both eyes and on the bridge of his nose. Brown only grinned. Said Giant Halfback Frank Gifford: "That Brown. He says he isn't Superman. What he means is that Superman isn't Jimmy Brown...
When James received his appointment to the Gifford Lectureship at Edinburgh University, he viewed it, firstly, as an opportunity for an act of filial devotion. Immediately after his father's death in 1882 he had written his wife: "you must not leave me till I understand a little more of the value and meaning of religion, in Father's sense, in the mental life and destiny of man. It is not the one thing needful, as he said. But it is needful with the rest. My friends leave it altogether out. I as his son (if for no other reason...
...teaching psychology 1878 Marries Alice Howe Gibbens 1879 Begins teaching philosophy 1885 Professor of philosophy 1889 Professor of psychology 1890 Publication of Principles of Psychology 1897 Publication of Will to Believe and Other Essays 1897 Professor of philosophy 1898 Injury to heart 1899-01 Convalescence in Europe 1901-02 Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh 1902 Publication of Varieties of Religious Experience 1905 Trip to Mediterranean 1906 Acting Professor at Stanford University 1907 Publication of Pragmatism 1907 Final resignation from Harvard 1908-09 Hibbert Lectures at Oxford 1909 Publication of A Pluralistic Universe, Meaning of Truth 1910 In Europe 1910 Died, Chocorua...
...William Gifford, administrative assistant to Rep. Charles Goodell (R-N.Y.), ranking Republican on the Education Committee, said yesterday that "strong Administration pressure might get the bill past the full House if it ever got past the Rules Committee," but added that its chances of winning approval from Rules seem very small...
Neither were the New York Giants exactly wild about Lombardi when he arrived in 1954 to put some offensive muscle on a team that scored only 179 points and lost nine games the season before. "Vinnie didn't understand our game when he came here," says Halfback Frank Gifford. "He wasn't too bright about it. At first, we players were showing him how it went. By the end of the year, though, he was showing us." In Lombardi's first season the Giants scored 293 points, won seven of twelve games; two years later, they...