Word: grandson
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Zimmerman never played a sport while an undergraduate, choosing instead to sing with the Harvard Glee Club and study German. But Zimmerman's grandson, Gary E. Zimmerman '99, said his grandfather was still an avid...
...vigorous man who loved life. Up until a few years ago, he walked a few miles each day, and I remember playing catch with him when I was younger," his grandson said. "He was a great influence on my life, including my decision to come to Harvard...
...ability to rise early and work late, study hard and make friends easily. At first she thought she might like to go into journalism, and she got herself a summer job working in the morgue at the Denver Post. There she met a guy named Joe--Joseph Patterson Albright, grandson of the founder of the New York Daily News, heir apparent to his aunt Alicia Patterson's Newsday...
...grandson of a former New Hampshire Governor and the son of a former Second District Representative, Bass has political blood. And with a few exceptions he is conservative, from voting for a balanced-budget amendment to supporting welfare reform. Last March he introduced a campaign-finance reform bill that would have reduced the maximum pac contribution from $5,000 to $1,000 and required 50% of all campaign contributions to be raised in-state...
...wild and woolly saga of one family more widely perceived as historical. Exhorting Abraham to leave his father's house and country, God offers him incalculable descendants and property. Abraham accepts, and the rest of Genesis describes his triumphs and travails and those of his son Isaac, grandson Jacob and great grandson Joseph; as they and their extended families are tested by hostile neighbors, famines, recurrent infertility and sometimes by the Deity himself. Divine intent and human ambition blur as each generation, often through painful winnowing, produces a champion to advance Israel's destiny. The book ends with Abraham...