Word: minerva
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Family & Early Years: Born in 1890 at Minerva, Ohio. Both his father and mother were schoolteachers. "Engine Charlie" has been fascinated by machines since he was a boy (two of the Wilsons' neighbors were locomotive engineers who often took him for rides). He went through a four-year electrical engineering course at Carnegie Tech in three years, graduated...
...tragic what has happened to the wonderful old pieces of furniture which were bought by the early Presidents. Except for the Blue Room suite, there is not a single stick of that original furniture left, and the two clocks [the Minerva, in the Blue Room, and the Hannibal, in the Green Room], along with a number of clocks in the various bedrooms, are the only early pieces that are left...
Police said the woman registered in Back Bay's Hotel Minerva under an assumed name...
...morality of the second is both superficial and amusing. This fantasy Smith: A Masque by Alison Lurie describes the dilemna of a young graduate who must choose a life's work. The graduate played by Tom Kennedy must select among Junno and wealth, Venus and artistic fame or Minerva and scholarship. Smith an obstinate fellow will have none of them and the goddesses immediately dispatch him to points unmentionable. Despite an overlong ending, the performance is thoroughly enjoyable...
...staff of diplomatically trained clergy will be the task of an institution of learning that is 250 years old this year-the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy. Though it has turned out four popes, 98 cardinals and 42 papal nuncios since it opened in 1701, the academy on the Piazza della Minerva has had a checkered career. Three times popes have seen fit to close it. In 1829 a contemporary chronicler wrote: "If in the city or in some fashionable salon you meet a young man wearing perfumed ecclesiastical garb and whose hair is much pomaded and who shows other outward signs...