Word: hobson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fencers did not acknowledge defeat until the last match. They led 6 to 3 in the foils, but Loomis quickly tied the score in the epee. The standing of the two teams stood at 13 to 13 until John Hobson of Loomis defeated Harold Cooledge in the final saber bout...
...supply of young leading men. When the story opens on a Danish freighter captained by scowling Conrad Veidt, his usually villainous demesne has been transformed into the habitat of rugged Scandinavians. After his ship is interned in a British port, and he courts mysterious but pretty Valerie Hobson during a blackout, it begins to appear that Veidt may be on the Right Side for once. When they both were captured and held by German spies, he is obviously all there is left a hero...
...mighty Richelieu settled by the stern in shallow water, surrounded by a vast pool of oil. Destroyed was one more threat to Britain's sea rule, and into R. N.'s log went an exploit to rank with that of U. S. Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson, who in 1898 scuttled a blockship in Santiago Bay, Cuba, under the guns of Spain's bottled-up fleet...
...community of nations, the American people must be prepared. Here is the special task and obligation of Christian leadership at the present time." Among those who signed: Episcopal Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker; Episcopal Bishops William Scar lett of Missouri, George Craig Stewart of Chicago, Henry Wise Hobson of Southern Ohio, Edward Lambe Parsons of California, Henry Knox Sherrill of Massachusetts; Methodist Bishops Ivan Lee Holt of Dallas, Francis John McConnell of New York; Presidents Charles Seymour of Yale University, Mildred Helen McAfee of Wellesley College, Elizabeth Cutter Morrow (acting) of Smith College, John Alexander Mackay of Princeton Theological...