Word: groton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duty of informing the Administration of the Chamber's will fell upon smiling, long-nosed Harper Sibley, the Chamber's new head and a personal friend of President Roosevelt since student days at Groton and Harvard. An affable Rochester (N. Y.) capitalist with his family's traditional interest in that city's Security Trust Co., President Sibley is a miner, a lumberman and a grand-scale farmer. He likes to work with the laborers on his 4,000-acre ranch at Santa Rita. Calif., or on his 350-acre farm at Sibleyville, near Rochester. In Illinois...
...that time another disturbing element had arisen. At the desks, where only Yankees had sat before, well-scrubbed Irish faces began to appear. Close on the heels of the Irish came dark-haired, nimble-brained Jews. Yankee families sent their sons out of the city to Andover, Exeter, Groton. Today 95% of Latin School boys are Irish or Jewish. Headmaster Joseph Lawrence Powers, a ruddy, white-thatched, billiard-playing Irishman, is the son of immigrants from County Cavan...
John Winthrop was an alchemist but an enterprising, open-minded one. Born in 1606 at Groton, England, he had attended Dublin's Trinity College, later dabbled in the law, spent five years junketing about Europe, encountered many a scholarly personage with whom he kept in touch by correspondence in Latin. When, at 24, he followed his father to the New World, he was undismayed by the fact that the colonies had no college, no scientific society, laboratory or library. He imported the first library and the first apparatus. His was the idea for the first chemical stock company...
...Royal Portable typewriter, in black leather case P-1 B1049 and marked with name scratched on frame JOHN D. SHAW, Groton, Mass...
...Benjamin G. C. Fincke '37, Irving C. Fine '37, Egbert W. Fischer '36, Walter D. Fischer '37, Eben H. Fiske ocC., Thomas Flint gr.E. S., Cleavland Floyd, Jr. '37, Hans W. Forster '36, William D. Fraser '38, Emil J. Ganem '37, Francis A. Goodhue, Jr. '37, Nathaniel B. Groton, Jr. '37, John H. Gilbert...