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...Lyon, Hancock Professor of Bebrew and other Oriental Languages, Emeritus, for copying, classifying, cataloging and studying the cuneiform inscriptions on clay tablets found at Nuzi...
...take up three days at least; the pairing of the dogs, determined by lot, would be read and posted the night before they opened. The dogs would then be taken, by motor or wagon, to the preserve now owned by Hobart Ames of Boston and commonly called the Old Hancock Place, which has been the site of the trials since 1896. There they would be unleashed in pairs, a brace before lunch and another in the afternoon, to work across the country for three or four hours. Handlers would flush the bevies the dogs pointed but no one would shoot...
Booker Taliaferro Washington Jr., son of the late great blackamoor educator, was sued by his wife, Mrs. Nettie Hancock Washington, in a cross-complaint against his divorce action, in Los Angeles. She objected to his boasting of his father, taking credit for many of the virtues of the deceased. Each accused the other of infidelity...
...James E. Hancock, president-general of the Society of the War of 1812, denied that the tune was difficult. Said he: "Even the mocking birds in Florida learned the song from the buglers when soldiers were encamped there en route to Cuba in the Spanish...
...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...