Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia's Jacob Malik...
...first formal relations between the U.S. and the Vatican were established in 1848, when President James Polk sent Jacob L. Martin, a convert to Catholicism, to Rome as charge d'affaires. At that time the Papal States controlled 16,000 square miles, compared to the Vatican's present 108.8 acres. Twenty years later, the diplomatic era which began with Jacob Martin came to an abrupt halt. Because of Protestant criticism of the mission, Congress cut off the funds, and Resident Minister Rufus King * came home from Rome...
...Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The window was planned by the late Bishop William T. Manning, who believed good sportsmanship and religion had much in common. To illustrate his point, the stained-glass window shows the symbolic figures of athletes surrounding medallions of Esau the hunter, Jacob wrestling with the Angel, and St. Paul with his advice to run a good race. On the wall will be added the names of some modern sports giants: Tennis Champion Robert D. Wrenn, baseball's Christy Mathewson, football's Walter Camp and hockey's Hobey Baker...
...Whose father, the late Jacob Adler, was a pillar of the Yiddish theater...
...toward the rapidly-growing school in New Haven, individual Harvard graduates were apt to be a bit contemptuous of Yale. Peter Thatcher 1704 had a son twice refused for admittance by Harvard, and then wrote a friend that "I might send him to Yale, which takes many inferior scholars." Jacob Eliot 1720, lived near New Haven and once visited a Yale Commencement. It was, he bitterly wrote to a friend. "Dull, dull, dull...