Word: jeffersons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Experiments at Jefferson Laboratory on the nature of the atom, the ultimate particle of matter, are now being conducted by several professors of the Physics Department, it was ascertained yesterday...
After the war, Gamaliel turned to polities, and in due course of time he becam the right-hand man of our great left-handed president. Thomas Jefferson. And along about 1807 or 1808. King George, a great sport lover, got a prime minister of his named Pyle to induce several members of the Harvard and Yale crews to go over to England and now on an English crew in the championships at Wimbledon. And President Jefferson was pretty sore, too. "What is to become of amateur athletics in America if this impeachment business goes on?" he asked...
...judgment seems to have been justified, to express the matter mildly. In 1897 his team beat Harvard, Cornell, Carlisle, Wesleyan, Brown, Lafayette, Pennsylvania State, Dartmouth, Virginia, Lehigh, Bucknell (twice), Franklin and Marshall, Washington and Jefferson, and Gettysburg. The team won all 15 games played, scoring 517 points to opponents...
...their graves, four onetime Bayard Senators must have chuckled proudly, said: "Nice work, Tom-you have that old Bayard fight in you." The four† dead had once been fighters: 1) James Asheton Bayard, Senator (1805-13), battled for the election of Thomas Jefferson against Aaron Burr. 2) Richard Henry Bayard was first mayor of Wilmington, Del., Senator (1836-45), Chief Justice of Delaware Supreme Court...
...people of moderate means who can not afford the cost of private rooms in hospitals and do not wish to suffer what seemed to them the humiliation of free wards. Alba Boardman Johnson, onetime (1911-19) president of the Bald win Locomotive Works and for years trustee of the Jefferson Medi cal College and Hospital, Philadelphia, suggested that wealthy patrons endow hospitals sufficiently so that these could afford to charge patients only $2 daily. "Probably 80% of the people may be classed as people of moderate means. The other 20% is divided between the rich...