Word: jeremiah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jeremiah Smith (1837-1921) was one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire from 1867 to 1874. In 1890 he became Story Professor, retiring in 1910. Through his teaching, and the teaching of his pupils, he exercised a distinct influence upon the development of the law of torts...
...Though the actual angling would be done from small boats, two yachts served as living and sleeping quarters. One was the Amitie, owned by Capitalist Joseph H. Adams whose Belle Isle home, adjoining the Penney estate, shelters the Hoover press entourage. The other was the Saunterer, owned by Banker Jeremiah Milbank of Manhattan, Eastern Republican Treasurer during the cam paign. Banker Milbank was on board...
Comparative records, in so far as they are applicable, seem to maintain an even balance of power between the Crimson and Green teams. Early in the season HARVARD DARTMOUTH Tudor, l.w. r.w., Rogers Putnam, c. c., Jeremiah Giddens, r.w. l.w., Heath H. Bigelow, l.d. r.d., Booma A. Bigelow, r.d. l.d., Shea Jackson, g. g., Bott...
...collection includes paintings of two Harvard men, famed as advocates in colonial times: Jeremiah Gridley, of the class of 1725, often called the "father of the Boston bar," and Benjamin Pratt, of the class of 1737, an eminent Boston lawyer and later chief justice of New York State. These two men were painted by Thomas Swibert of Boston, a famed American painter, ranked next to Copley in importance by many authorities on colonial artists...
...Beisan, Alan Rowe of the University of Pennsylvania found drain pipes, a grist mill, a circular silo, all indicating a busy city life 3,200 years ago. Pagan temples, tools, utensils, seals and jewelry were signs of Beisan's wealth. It was of such civilization that Jeremiah complained: Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven [Ashtoreth], and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods that...