Word: jonathan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Madness gallops in their family: of their three nephews, Teddy is convinced he is Theodore Roosevelt, Jonathan is a psychopathic slaughterer, and Mortimer is a drama critic. The plot is a bit mad, and is far too intricately folded to describe. And it never ends. As the final curtain falls, a guest is raising his glass. "Elderberry wine is rare nowadays--I thought I'd had my last glass." "No," replies Aunt Martha, "Here...
Eliot House will play Jonathan Edwards College. Mack Hyde, injured quarterback who has been unable to play in the last three games, will once again be calling the signals for his tight T formation eleven. Defensively, Bud Saylor, Eliot's line backer, and tackle Dick Stangler, are strong points. Eliot wound up the season in fifth place...
...election of a Democratic Congress along with President Eisenhower seems to indicate that although the people "like Ike" they disapprove of his policies and of his political favorites, said V.O. Key, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Government, speaking at the Dunster House Political Forum, last night...
...reports, science's discoveries have proved the Bible startlingly accurate in many checkable details. Keller cites the case of a Bible-reading British major who surprised and decimated a Turkish force in Palestine in World War I by attacking through the same narrow mountain pass which Saul and Jonathan had used to fall upon the Philistines centuries earlier. The Bible told just where to find it: "And between the passages . . . there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side . . . the forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash...
...most important provisions adopted during Reconstruction was the inauguration of a mandatory system of free public schools for both whites and Negroes. Negro members of the conventions and legislatures not only supported these provisions but in some instances helped to put them into effect. For example, Jonathan Gibbs, a graduate of Dartmouth College, 1852, virtually established as Superintendent of Public Instruction in Florida, 1872-1874, the public schools of that state as an orderly system...