Word: minerva
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Honest-to-goodness muckraking, though, was on the way. At McClure's weekly magazine, Ida Minerva Tarbell, daughter of a Pennsylvania oil producer who had been forced to eat dust by John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil trust, was making life hell for the wizened John D. with a 19-part series on Standard Oil that ran from 1902 to 1905. Her work, plus the reporting of a few other intrepid journalists, notably at the hotly competitive mass-circulation papers of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, became Teddy Roosevelt's big stick in his successful drive to bust...
...pervading style of Munro's rural Ontario, where "drawbacks and adversity were not to be noticed, not to be distinguished from their opposites." Munro breaks the silence, but without devaluing the style. Not many writers can pull this off. It takes a balance of compassion and detachment worthy of Minerva, the goddess of wisdom...
...about 30 to 40 students and we didn'thave a lot of space open," Minerva said...
...Storage Depot, 264 Monsignor O'BrienHighway, manager Martin Minerva said many requestsarrived last season for student storage--so manythat they had to refer many to a sister store inQuincy...
...Minerva Bernardino, the Dominican Republic's delegate and later the first female U.N. ambassador, recalls the sense of high mission. Bernardino, now 88, broke her ankle at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel the night before she was to address the conclave. "They told me I needed a cast to my knee. I said no. They said I would lose my foot. I said, 'I have to make a speech tomorrow and prefer to lose my foot.'" Harold Stassen, also 88 today, was in the U.S. delegation. The former Governor of Minnesota and perennial presidential hopeful recalls the thrill on June...