Word: isaac
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Died. William Isaac Purvis, 66, who was hanged for murder in 1894, escaped death when his head slipped through the noose, was later pardoned; of heart disease; in Lumberton, Miss. Twenty-six years after his near-execution, when another man confessed to the murder for which Purvis was convicted, Mississippi voted Will Purvis a shamefaced $5,000 "for services rendered to the State...
TURBULENT YEARS-Isaac F. Marcosson-Dodd, Mead...
...toed shoes, was considered peculiar by his mates. They were quite right. When he was hardly past 30, Maxwell invented electro-magnetic waves (e.g., wireless waves) out of his head, then proved mathematically that their speed must equal that of light. British physical scientists rank Maxwell second only to Isaac Newton. His immortal set of four equations, deemed a thing of beauty by scientific esthetes, is Exhibit A for apprentice theorists...
Males: Abel, Abimelech, Abner, Absalom, Ahab, Aaron, Ascher, Baruch, Bud, Dan, Denny, Eli, Elias, Elihu, Enoch, Esau, Esra, Ezechiel, Gad, Gideon, Habakuk, Hillel, Isaac, Isachar, Isidor, Ismael, Israel, Itzig, Jehu, Jehuda, Jeremia, Jethro, Joab, Jochanan, Joel, Jona, Jonathan, Juda, Kaleb, Laban, Lazarus, Levi, Lot, Lupu, Manasse, Moab, Mordechaj, Moses, Naftali, Nathan, Nehemia, Noa, Obadja, Pinkus, Ruben, Sally, Salomon, Samuel, Saul, Schmul, Scholem, Sebulon, Sirach, Simson, Teit, Uria, Uriel, Zedekia...
...Western Reserve University summer school in Cleveland, Isaac S. Metcalf Jr., writing a thesis on the subject of what minnows eat, discovered that the best way to get minnows for experiments was out of the stomachs of fresh fish, spent the summer fishing...