Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Especially good are the midfields. The first unit comprises Captain Will Chamberlain, Tox Dixon, and Chuck Jacob. Dixon is troublesome to his opponents because of his rushing ability and accurate shot...
Nell J. Smelser--Adams; secretary-treasurer, Harvard World Federalists; Social Relations Society; Edward Whittaker Prize Scholarship; Jacob Wendell Scholarship...
...Fingers. Everything was handled with great care. Gangsters Albert ("Big Albert") Anastasia, Abe ("Kid Twist") Reles, Harry ("Pittsburgh Phil") Strauss and Emanuel ("Mendy") Weiss spent weeks in planning. One Jacob Migdon spent a long time "fingering" the job, and reported that Orlofsky, a short, fat man, left his Bronx apartment at exactly 7:55 every morning. Thus, when the big day came, Parisi was standing near by at exactly the right time...
...constitution for the group was adopted. Jacob J. Kaplan '08 was elected vice-president...
Brilliant Pillows. Finally in 1915, diffident Matthew Smith screwed up his courage, asked Jacob Epstein for an invitation to the London Group Exhibition where, at 36, he showed his first picture. Doubting Matthew ("I wanted to be sure I had something to say") waited ten more years before he had his first one-man show. By then his furnace reds, bonfire oranges and gas-jet blues had warmed not only Sculptor Epstein but a lot of British painters as well. When Portraitist Augustus John was asked, "Who are the three greatest British artists?" he answered, "Well, there's Matthew...