Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert D. Mitchell, Brookings, South Dakota, South Dakota State '32, assistant in Sanitary Engineering; Roy M. Seideman, Long Island City, New York, Long Island '36, assistant in Vital Statistics; Howard A. Potter Jr., Cambridge, instructor in Chemistry; William W. A. Johnson '36, Cambridge, assistant in Astronomy; William T. Pecora 2d, Newark, New Jersey, Princeton '33, assistant in Petrography...
...favorites to win the team title were Columbia, which last won the outdoor I. C. 4-A in 1879, and Pittsburgh, which never had won. Mainstays of both colleges were Negroes: Columbia's Captain Benjamin Washington Johnson and Pitt's tall (6 ft. 4 in.) John Y. Woodruff, neither of whom had won an I. C. 4-A title. When fleet little Ben Johnson not only whizzed home first in .the 100-yd. dash and won the broad jump, but also reeled off a 220-yd. semifinal in a near-record 21 sec., Columbia thought the championships already...
Addressing the Buffalo Advertising Club, Professor Burges Johnson, chairman of the department of English at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. and onetime editor-in-chief of Judge, declared: "Mark Twain is the alltime, all-America cusser. He could cuss five solid minutes without repeating himself...
...verdict of the Senate in 1868, sitting as a Court of Impeachment [on unpopular President Andrew Johnson], put a quietus on another heresy that had broken out periodically since 1787. It was now determined, for all time, that impeachment was a trial, not to settle a political argument, but to establish crime." Had Johnson's impeachment succeeded, says Author Hendrick, the Presidency "would have been so diminished, would have so become the sport of legislators, that the constitutional fabric would have been shaken almost beyond repair." The U. S. would have had a government comparable to England...
...I.C.A.A.A.A. meet that saw Ben Johnson of Columbia the first of the century to win three events--the 100, 220, and broad jump--and Pitt's ace John Woodruff capture both the half and the mile, Harvard gained only eight and a half points...