Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey could not compete with the Champ when it came to sustained sarcasm; but he threw one sudden and effective sarcastic punch, when he announced that Franklin Roosevelt was indispensable : "He is indispensable to Harry Hopkins, Madame Perkins, Harold Ickes . . . the Mayor of Jersey City . . . to Sidney Hillman . . . and to Earl Browder...
...appears to have been an attractive and useful citizen. A cheerful, ruddy-faced clergyman who had given up his parish to become a book agent (the Episcopal Church in the South was demoralized after the Revolution), Parson Weems for 31 years bounced over the early U.S. roads with his Jersey wagon loaded with good books. He carried a quill pen stuck in his hat, an inkhorn in his lapel, and his fiddle on the wagon seat beside him. "He stopped now and then at a pond or a stream to wash his shirt and take a bath, suspending his linen...
...this coveted scholarship which gives the wood its significance. The award was made from 1924 until the war to outstanding Harvard graduates for study at Cambridge, and it has deeper importance than most scholarships. The Associated Harvard Clubs, who originated the honor in memory of Lionel De Jersey Harvard '15, descendant of John Harvard, calls it "An Ambassadorship of Goodwill...
News from Rahway. When the new drug was quietly announced two years ago by Drs. Selman Abraham Waksman and Harold Boyd Woodruff of the New Jersey State Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers, only its test-tube performance was known. The present excitement comes from mouse experiments last summer by research workers at the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research, at Rahway, N.J. (the drug has not yet been tried on people). The evidence...
First Frost. In Jersey City, Ignatz C. Banikonis, tipsy and overheated, lay down for a short nap, melted his way through the crust on a pool of tar, woke in the morning frozen in the tar except for part of his head and right side...