Word: jacobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Williams project, though encouraged by the State Department, was unofficial. Its sponsors were Dr. Halfdan Gregersen, dean of Williams College; Jacob K. Javits, a Wall Street lawyer...
Enrique Sanchez de Lozada, onetime Bolivian diplomat, now a Williams professor; Dr. Carlos Garcia-Mata, an Argentine businessman; and Roger W. Riis, son of the late social worker, Jacob Riis...
Only four doctors have been considered eminent enough to win this privilege: Dr. Bela Schick, inventor of the Schick test for diphtheria immunity (not to be confused with Jacob Schick, inventor of the Schick razor); Nobelman George Hoyt Whipple, co-discoverer of the liver treatment for anemia; Dr. Manfred Sakel, originator of the insulin shock treatment for schizophrenia; Dr. Benjamin Philp Watson, head of Columbia's Sloane Hospital for Women...
From then on, Jacob Djugashvili, son. of Joseph Stalin, was nobody. No one in the foreign embassies in Moscow ever met him; all they heard was tenuous gossip: Jacob secretly running off with a poor seamstress . . . Jacob working in a factory to boost morale . . . Jacob not doing; very well at the Commissariat for Heavy Industry. Finally he disappeared into the Army...
Last week the Germans announced that Panzer forces under General Rudolf Schmidt had in the course of fighting the Fourteenth Howitzer Artillery Regiment of the Fourteenth Soviet Mechanized Division, captured Jacob, son of Joseph Stalin. They were very proud of the feat, and issued pictures of the wonderful heir. But all they had was a boy with a hangdog look, who was never much...