Word: havener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dice have galloped now, and you pray you haven't turned up with an aceydency. Don't suffer under the illusion that you have a decision about the branch you are assigned to. You have a preference, but the only big sticks you carry are your test marks, and experience...
...seen their soldiers, haven...
Says Lena: "It frightens me a little, but I haven't got any voice. I don't know anything about music. I feel like the fellow who was dreaming: all he could say was 'Don't wake...
...They laugh best who laugh last," Biographer Rukeyser quotes from William James. "Wait till we're dead twenty years. Look at the way they're now treating poor Willard Gibbs, who during his lifetime car hardly have been considered any great shakes at New Haven." Readers unable to place (Josiah) Willard Gibbs need not fret about it. Paradoxically, Gibbs is perhaps best known for his obscurity, a personal blackout which has become legendary. Professors, publicists, prominent Yale men for years have publicly confessed ignorance of Yale's most distinguished son. But by those in the know...
...facts of Gibbs's life offer little temptation to a biographer. He was born in New Haven (1839). He went to Yale. He taught at Yale. He died in New Haven (1903). He never married. Save for a brief period of postgraduate work in France and Germany, he saw little more of the world outside than Philosopher Immanuel Kant (who never left his native Königsberg). "His life was nothing but self and science and then he tore the self away...