Word: milford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ADAMS Milford...
Together. Charles and Mary Beard went off to a spacious old colonial house near New Milford, Conn., settled down to running a dairy farm and remaking the American mind. Each of them turned out individual books. Friendly, tough-minded Mary Beard brought labor into scholarly history (A Short History of the American Labor Movement) at a time (1920) when the subject belonged almost exclusively to pamphleteers. She wrote of women {Woman's Work in Municipalities, America Through Women's Eyes, etc.) without feminist ax grinding. Over the years kindly, ruddy-cheeked Charles Beard achieved the stature...
...Japan as an adviser on municipal reconstruction. Nine thousand miles from home, the Beards saw U.S. history in a new perspective, felt a fresh enthusiasm for writing it. On the ship coming back they sketched the outline on big pieces of foolscap. In the twin studies of their new Milford home, looking out on the rolling Connecticut hills, they wrote The Rise of American Civilization, America in Midpassage, and The American Spirit - four volumes that told and interpreted the whole story in 3,362 lucid pages...
...Examples (curtailed or closed for the duration): Harvard's Wolf School; Yale's Milford; Princeton's Hun; Washington, D.C.'s Roudybush Foreign Service School, which crams many candidates for U.S. posts; the New York State bar examination cram given for 29 years by famed Manhattan attorney Harold R. Medina and taken by many graduates of the best U.S. law schools...
Salesman. In Cleveland, Haberdasher Milford Click was finally able to satisfy a customer by selling him Milford Click's own shirt...