Word: harriet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mississippi's thoughtful citizens about America's worst national disgrace, and chances this week seemed better than ever that complaisant Deputy Sheriff Holder and the lynch mob might really feel the hand of the law they had flouted. If so, to Governor Johnson and courageous Editor Harriet S. Gibbons of the Leader-Call would go a considerable share of the credit...
...looks as though the freezing over of the Charles gave some 'Poon men a chance to reenact Harriet Beecher Stowe's Little Liza 'cross the ice with the rest of the this-side-of-the-river Harvard population filling in as the blood-hounds...
Under the Spartan direction of Coach Harriet Clarke, who thinks "Harvard men are sissies," over 100 girls ply the river twice a week for their required athletic credits. In their only boat, reported to have been christened with real champagne recently, about four shifts a day push off from the Browne and Nichols boat house, which has been leaned them for the fall...
Speaking as one of the millions of hard-of-hearing folk in this land I wish that in your admirable review of Harriet Martineau's Retrospect of Western Travel (TIME, Nov. 2) the reviewer had played up more dramatically Harriet's really amazing achievement. This was not writing a lively and realistic description of our infant republic, but rather in spite of serious deafness collecting the facts for it. My lifelong interest in Harriet was inspired by her handicap, for I, too, have been seriously deaf all my life...
...difficulties in conversation will strike a responsive chord in the cochlea of every hard-of-hearing person. She admired Malthus but could not understand him; he had a harelip and a cleft palate. Wordsworth took his teeth out after dinner, which made his most inspired words unintelligible to poor Harriet...