Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Remedy. Swiss-born Jacob Schweppe first began making soda water in his Bristol chemist's shop in 1794. Quinine water, which Schweppes concocted in the 1860s, so appealed to British taste that by 1903 Schweppes had factories all over the empire. World War II cut off sugar supplies and stopped production; when the factories started up again in 1948, sugar rationing kept sales flat...
Police later arrested fire reufbs all from Newton and booked them on assault and battery charges, disturbing the peace and possession of illegal weapons. Deice fives bluted on possible connection with the still unsolved murder of Rabbit Jacob I. Fuber in Roxbury last New Yessie...
Francis P. Whitehair wanted to be Secretary of the Navy. Last week he made it. The last step on his Jacob's ladder was a disappearing letter of resignation...
...Jacob Lawrence, 35, is the nation's (and probably the world's) foremost Negro painter. Yet his draftsmanship would hardly earn passing grades at an academic art school; his painting technique is dry, flat, hesitant; his colors are sometimes dirty, sometimes neon-bright, always arbitrary...
When Fishback began his course last September, he got his recruits to agree to stick with it for a whole school year do prescribed reading and field studies, hold an open meeting about once a month, keep minutes for analysis. With S.I.U.'s Educational Research Director Jacob Bach to help him make the rounds, Fishback is often on the road three nights a week. He encourages boards to define their duties and powers, patiently coaches them on such matters as public relations, budgets, expanded school facilities, staffs...