Word: lymans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Knowlton Lyman Ames Jr., 40, Illinois State Director of Finance; and Mrs. Frances Dillon Little, 27, of Danville, Ill. and Chicago; in Springfield...
Story of the Bible (1904) Jesse Lyman Hurlbut...
...time he was a preacher in Boston in 1826, Lyman Beecher had become a "New School" Calvinist, believing both in free will and predestination. In 1835 when he was president of Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati. Lyman Beecher was tried for heresy. In a day when a theological squabble never failed to titillate the public, his trial and acquittal were front-page news all over the U. S. His children...
...notables: Sir William Bragg, Nobel prizeman now lecturing at Cornell; Mt. Wilson Observatory's famed Walter Sydney Adams; Research Directors Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories and Charles Edward Kenneth Mees of Eastman Kodak; Astronomers Otto Struve of Yerkes Observatory and Clyde Fisher of Manhattan; Assistant Director Lyman James Briggs of the U. S. Bureau of Standards and Dr. Arthur Louis Day, Carnegie Institution geophysicist...
...attendants at Oshkosh's hospital, to "neck out" means to rope a wet towel around an inmate's neck, twist. On Jan. 26 an attendant "necked out" Inmate Oscar Schrader so thoroughly that he died. Five other Oshkosh deaths apparently resulted from brutal treatment. ¶ When Clark Lyman entered Mendota's hospital on Feb. 14, 1931 he was in good physical condition. Two weeks later he died, officially of bronchial pneumonia. But in the interval his wife and half-brother had seen him bound hand & foot, with two teeth knocked out, a gash over...