Word: jacobs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week, the University of Minnesota's Dr. Willem Jacob Luyten announced that he had discovered a double star which is only about six light years (35 trillion miles) away from the solar system. It is thus the nearest known star that can be seen regularly in the Northern Hemisphere. (The nearest of all stars, Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri, are 4.3 light years away, but are usually visible only.in the Southern Hemisphere...
Pratt begins with essays on the temper and tactics of such well-known generals as Greene, who forced Cornwallis into his hopeless position at Yorktown, and "Mad Anthony" Wayne, the hero of Fallen Timbers. But it is Country Squire Jacob Brown, onetime secretary of Alexander Hamilton, whom Chronicler Pratt considers "the best battle captain in the history of the nation." Once, during a British attack at Buffalo in the War of 1812, Brown's Kentucky squirrel hunters (under General Gaines) emptied the first two boats so quickly that the others didn't even come in. Brown, says Pratt...
...Robert Hall figures are carefully kept under the hat of U.M. & M.'s President Jacob Schwab, a shy, cold-eyed man with a passion for obscurity. His name usually gets into public print only once a year, when the U.S. Treasury lists him as one of the highest-paid executives in the , U.S. The latest list put his salary & bonus in 1946 at $440,542, third in the payments so far reported...
...West Roxbury; Saul Kravetz '48 of Brooklyn, New York; Benjamin Hammet Lacy '49 of Dubuue, towa; Hugh Gregory Langley '49 of St. Catherine, Ontario, Canada; Christopher Michael Martin '49 of Newark, New Jersery; Joseph Francis Ryan, Jr. '49 of West Roxbury; Paul Sack '48 of Younkers, New York; Eli Jacob Sagau '48 of South Orange, New Jersey; Howard Hugh Schless '46 to Philadelphia; Noel Marshall Seeburg, Jr. '46 of Chicago; Garabad Shargabian '48 of Roxbury; Jason Loonard Starr '49 of Mattapan; Robert Brown Voitle, Jr. '50 of Pttsburgh, Pennsylvania; Richard Wingard Wallach '49 of New York City; and Christopher, Wright...
...Jacob Lawrence, a Negro expressionist, wrote that the most important thing about art to him was not expression at all, but observation. "My long-term approach is an effort to develop the insight and personal philosophy I bring to my observation. I tried to do this in The Wedding...