Word: jonathan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jonathan Edwards," Professor Murdock, Harvard...
...Jonathan Edwards," Professor Murdock, Harvard...
...Pennsylvania's big, down-at-heel University two years ago. From its board of trustees Princeton had drafted the lumbering, plainspoken, understanding head of the country's second biggest life insurance company?Prudential Life's Edward Dickinson Duffield of the Class of 1892, descendant of Princeton's first president, Jonathan Dickinson, son of Rev. Thomas Duffield who taught in Princeton for 56 years, brother of Princeton's longtime (1901-30) Treasurer Henry Green Duffield. He would be in Princeton whole Tuesdays and Saturday mornings (inevitably staying over for football games...
...always gone straight to the nearest example of the bird he wanted. He sketched the golden eagle in the New York Zoological Garden, the valley quail in the Pittsburgh Zoo. When he painted the final pictures, he verified his colors from the bird skin collection of Dr. Jonathan Dwight in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. The episode of the pair of golden eagles chasing the redhead ducks (see cut} was reported to him by others. But he has seen a pair of bald eagles so chasing ducks in Connecticut. Too slow for the ducks, one eagle dives...
...Mill, drive a painful wedge between employer and employes. The Oldroyds own Syke Mill. The first Oldroyd is murdered by his workmen in 1812 for setting up weaving frames. His son Will marries the sister of one of the murderers. Will's legitimate son Brigg and his bastard son Jonathan quarrel over workers' rights. Brigg marries the daughter of a foreman. Their son, young Brigg, despises his mother a little, courts his cousin Jane, loses her to another foreman, marries into the county peerage. With Young Brigg, the Oldroyd blood begins to thin out. Francis, his son, marries Jane...