Word: hamilton
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...Southern conservative, Holland had led the successful campaign to repeal the poll tax in his own state in 1937; since 1949 he has annually introduced an anti-poll-tax amendment in the Senate. Holland moved that the Senate take up a resolution to make a national monument of Alexander Hamilton's house in New York City...
When his motion was approved, Holland moved that the language of the anti-poll-tax amendment be substituted for the language of the Hamilton resolution...
Another "index of authorship," average sentence length, was employed in a statistical study done elsewhere to determine whether or not a single person wrote the lliad. Mosteller tried this but found that it would not work with the Federalist problem, because Madison and Hamilton wrote sentences similar in length, moreover, they both shared "a complicated style and phrasing...
...review of Letters to a Friend [March 16] may give a wrong impression of Father Hamilton Johnson's responsibility for their publication. Miss Babington-Smith was collecting Miss Macaulay's letters. Father Johnson, in his eighties and far from well, was unable to make a selection. He entrusted all that he had kept to her, with permission to use what she thought suitable. He pictured a volume containing letters to many persons, not a volume given over entirely to letters to himself. Miss Babington-Smith may have been quite right in publishing them in this...
Bullets & Combs. Oliver Treyz (rhymes with preys), a math major (Hamilton College), a statistical control officer in the Army, a network and ad-agency research man, was admittedly no creator...