Word: matthews
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Obviously gearing his address to a university audience, variously quoted James B. Conant, Woodrow Wilson, Artemus Ward, Matthew Hale, John Randolph of Roanoke, Francis Bacon, Cardozo, Justice Holmes, and Gilbert & Sullivan...
...Mansion, by William Faulkner. Despite awkwardness, even sloppiness, in the writing, this last installment of the Snopes trilogy (earlier novels: The Hamlet, The Town) remains a smoldering personal testament to the worst in the American South and the worst in man. Edison, by Matthew Josephson. An able biography of the deaf, eccentric, agnostic genius who may not have been the world's greatest inventor, but who had no equal as an inventor-promoter...
...Craig, John C. Jr. '62 20 6:0 190 Tulsa, Okla. 69 Loftus, Gary M. '61 19 5:9 179 E. Cleveland, Ohio 60 Norton, Gerald P. '61 19 5:11 180 Baldwin, N.Y. 67 Shaughnessy, Stanley '60 21 6:0 188 N. Tarrytown, N.Y. 61 Tobriner, Matthew W. '61 19 6:0 195 Washington, D.C. 62 Weihenmayer, E.A. III '62 19 6:0 188 Jenkintown, Pa. CENTERS 56 Colyer, John H. '62 19 6:1 180 Oneonta, N.Y. 57 Eckfeldt, Richard H. '61 20 6:1 195 Paoli, Pa. 59 Kirn, Walter N. '60 21 6:1 195 Akron...
...Prioresse's Tale Geoffrey Chaucer ended his version of one of the best-known stories of the Middle Ages. "In 1255," according to contemporary Chronicler Matthew Paris, "the Jews of Lincoln stole a boy called Hugh, who was about eight years old." After fattening him up, they were said to have staged a mock re-enactment of the Crucifixion, killing little Hugh to the accompaniment of fiendish tortures. "When the boy was dead," Paris concludes, "they took the body down from the cross, and for some reason disemboweled it; it is said for the purpose of their magic arts...
EDISON (511 pp.)-Matthew Josephson-McGraw-Hill...