Word: jonathan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SINNOTT San Francisco ^f " Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it" (Jonathan Swift...
...that he proposed to do some of his flood-area inspecting on foot. Then he casually stood off yet another attempt to smoke him out on that most fascinating of subjects: 1952. He was asked if he would comment on a magazine article by ex-White House Assistant Jonathan Daniels, predicting that Harry Truman would run for the presidency and be elected by a minimum of 419 electoral votes...
...pattern was repeated during the rest of his trip. San Antonio, the old Army town with the highest percentage of retired generals in the U.S., treated him to old memories (he had lived there as a boy, and attended Texas Military Academy). General Jonathan Wainwright was on hand, in bemedaled uniform ("How are you, Skinny, you old rascal?"), so was Lieut. General Walter Krueger, General Courtney Hodges...
...governor's gift put the school on its feet, and in 1718 it gratefully changed its name in his honor. By 1720, it had 43 students and a three-story house, painted blue. "I take very great content under my present tuition," wrote Student Jonathan Edwards that year, "as all the rest of the scholars seem...
...fifth, the score stood tied at 6 to 6. Both teams agreed to go one more inning before calling the game. Jonathan Edwards eked out the winning run in their half of this sixth inning...