Word: greenleaf
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Irving Asher Abrams, George Motley Angle, William Pollard Bartlett, Sheldon David Berman, Douglas Aldrich Brown, Lyman Greenleaf Bullard, Thomas Dudley Cabot, Jr., William Cannon Cahall, 3d., Worthington Campbell, Jr., Melvin Jerome Carro, Edward McDermott Casey, Francis Henry Caskin, 3d., Bradford Cobb, Timothy Coggeshall, Charles Thompson Cowen, Julian Crocker, Leon Antoine Dance, Jr., Malcolm Mark Donahue, Arthur John Egan, Thomas Laurence Farmer, Robert William Gallant, David Milton Gordon, Stanley Kotzen Gordon, Richard Currier Gove, Edward Lowell Hadley, Robert James Harbison, 3d., Bartlett Harwood...
...RICHARD GREENLEAF...
...Espy, J. E. Faurot, D. E. Forst, Myrtile Frank, Jr., Edmond Garvey, R. D. Glendinning, W. W. Goodrich, R. R. Gordon, C. E. Goudge, R. A. Gray, C. T. Greenleaf, Jr., N. T. Harty, J. R. Hawk, F. H. Haye, P. P. Hebert, W. A. Hebert, E. W. Hening, Jr., R. S. Herman...
Pool shark is a title distasteful to most women. But Ruth ("Lefty") McGinnis, 30-year-old daughter of a Honesdale, Pa. barber, is proud of her ability with a cue. When she was only ten, little Ruthie could pocket 15 balls in succession,, barnstormed with Champion Ralph Greenleaf as an "added attraction" to his act. A few years ago, during an exhibition on a substandard table (4½ by 9), Miss McGinnis made a run of 128. World's record on a standard table...
...made a best-seller of Lancelot Hogben's Mathematics for the Million. The mathematicians' conclusion: the trouble is not with mathematics but with the way it is taught. Most math teachers emphasize computation to the point of drudgery. A prime example (from an old U.S. arithmetic textbook - Greenleaf 's) : "Required the contents of the earth, supposing its circumference to be 25,000 miles. Ans. 263,858,149,120.06886875 cubic miles...