Word: kenneths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Died. Kenneth Douglas McKellar, 88, longtime (36 years) hell-raising Democratic Senator from Tennessee, self-styled "Big Uncle" of the TVA; of old age; in Memphis. Relentless in his prejudices, vicious in his vendettas, he used his chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee to browbeat his colleagues into line; popular in his home state, he was a head-bowing yesman to Memphis' late Boss Edward H. Crump, was beaten for a seventh term...
...Kenneth H. Lang '58, Manager of the Band, armed with no-doz and black coffee, spent the night close to the telephone as he awaited the sporadic reports...
...Supreme Court's action threw Virginia officials into a state of uncertainty about their next action. The state's attorney general, Kenneth Patty, said: "I just don't know and am unable to say what the effect will be on the over-all segregation picture in the state...
Emerson D is filled these days with English concentrators and dilettantes leaning forward to memorize Perry Miller's interpretations of the White Whale; Sever Hall draws about a roomful of the less dilettantish who wish to gain Kenneth Murdock's analyses of American literature to 1825; and the Coop is stocked with books by Faulkner, Twain, Hawthorne, Cooper, and the Puritan writers...
...Wendell who can truly be called the founder, and the main supporter of American literature at Harvard in its early years. Kenneth Murdock has said that the history of the teaching of American literature at Harvard is not the story of "general attitudes, but of men," and Wendell is perhaps the prime example. An avowed Anglophile, his beard and spats gave him the appearance of "a real professor," in the words of one awed freshman in his course. It is told that upon walking into his first class of the term and being greeted by thunderous applause, he responded with...