Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert M. Boyd '41, of New York City and Lowell House was awarded the Jacob Wendell Scholarship given annually to an outstanding scholar in the sophomore class. The prize scholarship, awarded regardless of financial status, carries a stipend of $500, and automatically makes the recipient a member of the society of previous winners who dine with the Wendell family and the President of Harvard...
...youth Esau was wronged by his younger brother Jacob, who became father of the twelve tribes of Israel. Years later the warlike, hirsute Esau (who came from his mother's womb "all over like an hairy garment") terrified Jacob and his followers when he appeared at the ford of the Jabbok with 400 men, but instead of carrying out a pogrom he forgave his brother, embraced him. (Genesis, Chapter...
Great Western is situated in Pittsburg, Calif., 50 miles northeast of San Francisco. In 1920, when the four-year-old company was ailing, Banker-Chairman Mortimer Fleishhacker installed able, ambitious Jacob F. C. Hagens as president. The company promptly made its first profit-$100,000; last year it cleared...
...each preferred share they hold, they will get three-sixteenths of a share of Dow common; for each common share (whose price zoomed from $60 to $132 on news of the merger), one share of Dow common (about $134). The merger will make Great Western a Dow division with Jacob Hagens its manager...
...massive, primitive and impassioned works of Sculptor Jacob Epstein have shocked London for 30 years. Last week Londoners were not so much shocked as surprised by Epstein's latest exhibition, which consisted not of sculpture but of 37 pencil drawings displayed at Tooth's New Bond Street Galleries. They were part of a set of 60 illustrating Les Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil) by the 19th-Century French poet, Charles Baudelaire. "This Bible of the modern man has long called to me," explained Sculptor Epstein...