Word: hancock
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William Rosenzweig Arnold, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages, died suddenly yesterday as a result of heart failure. Funeral services will be conducted by Dean Sperry and Professor W. W. Fenn in Appleton Chapel tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock...
...Columbia University and became Curator of the Department of Antiquities of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He taught at the Andover Theological Seminary, and from 1908 to 1922 was Andover Professor of the Hebrew Language and Literature at Harvard. From 1922 to his death he held the Hancock professorship, which is one of the oldest in the University. He is best known for his book on "The Meaning of Ephor", and at the time of his death, was working on a treatise of some portions of the Book of Judges, which was nearly ready for publication...
Historians, thumbing over old Gazette files, wonder how Editors Dixon and Hunter would have treated President Hoover's election. For this was their whole account of a potent colonial event: "The Hon. John Hancock, Esq., a Delegate [to the Continental Congress] from Boston, is appointed President of the Congress in the room of the Hon. Peyton Randolph, Esq." Impartial, the Gazette gave George Washington no more space when he was appointed commander-in-chief of "all the provincial troops in North America...
Fierce summer warfare broke out anew last week in the sea angle, between Long Island and New Jersey, which forms the entrance to New York Harbor. An enemy fleet viciously attacked U. S. land defenses at Forts Hancock and Tilden and was finally repulsed, but only after lower Manhattan, the bridges across the East River, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, great ammunition dumps at the Jersey City railheads had been laid in ruins. The invading fleet in this Army-Navy war game was commanded by Rear Admiral William Carey Cole, U. S. N. Aged 61, slender, handsome, rather English in manner...
...large Insurance Companies of today have enormous staffs of employees who do the necessary clerical, accounting and office executive work required by the very nature of the business. One has only to stand outside of a building like the John Hancock in Boston, or any of the large Companies in Hartford, to realize the enormous numbers who are employed in the home offices of these great insurance organizations...