Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Offer. Three weeks ago Glen Alden sent a letter to Endicott-Johnson stockholders offering to buy-at $30.50 a share-all of the company's 810,000 shares of common stock, then selling at $27.50. A week later Endicott-Johnson Director Jacob M. Kaplan, onetime Welch Grape Juice president, was revealed to have sold 60,000 shares of his stock to Glen Alden, explained that he thought the shoe concern was "a dying company." Word quickly spread through the Triple Cities that Glen Alden, if it got control, would move the plants-a rumor Glen Alden denied...
...leaps of faith in the possibilities of the future, it is small wonder that an electric atmosphere pervaded the whole of science in 1960. "I could have lived in no other age in which so intoxicating and beautiful a series of discoveries could have been made," breathes British Mathematician Jacob Bronowski. "If I have any regrets at the thought of dying, it is that we live in so explosive a time that discoveries will continue to be made that I will know nothing about...
...Primate toured the Garden of Gethsemane, where he plucked an olive branch from a tree alleged to have been planted before the birth of Christ, and viewed the Dead Sea Scrolls. Near the town of Nablus, Dr. Fisher, fortified with a strong dose of stomach salts, drank freely from Jacob's Well. (The archbishop, said his staff, was holding up well under the rigors of the Middle Eastern diet.) He looked at the ruins where Salome danced, saw the site where John the Baptist was beheaded. At the River Jordan, the archbishop refused to be totally immersed, instead dipped...
...sturdy Icelandic Viking named Thorfinn Karlsefni; after him came a procession of American types-a Ploughman, an Immigrant, a Slave, a Miner. Finally in 1950 the city decided to branch out. Two of the sculptors asked to do works for the park: the late Sir Jacob Epstein and Jacques Lipchitz...
...been successively a poet, philosopher, self-proclaimed political reactionary, militarist, and pet lion of his own literary salon. A huge, indolent man of lightning intelligence and wit who combined a Prussian officer's bearing with a contagious charm, Hulme was perhaps best described by his sculptor friend Jacob Epstein when he wrote: "He was capable of kicking a theory as well as a man downstairs...