Word: monticello
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Question. In a sense, Hummon was the work of one Gibson Greer Ezell, an unknown storekeeper from little Monticello (pop. 1,746). One day just before last November's final election, Ezell ran a coony eye over the new Georgia constitution, discovered that it provided no clear answer to a question which had been bothering him and many other Georgians: "What if ailing Old Gene Talmadge died before he got inaugurated?" Ezell thought of an answer that suited him, and telephoned Hummon: "You better get some votes written in for yourself...
...owns smaller mines at Naturita, Colo., and at Monticello, Utah...
Thomas Jefferson felt that education's prime responsibility was to discover the gifted student and train him for leadership in his special field (the versatile sage of Monticello never dreamed that specialization in stenography would one day seem more desirable than Sanskrit). Andrew Jackson's philosophy, on the contrary, clearly calls for education to concentrate on raising the level of the mass...
...born a statesman. At 17 he was a friend, on a plane of intellectual equality, of the Royal Governor of Virginia. At 24 he was one of the five most prosperous lawyers in the colony. At 26, the builder of Monticello was the master of broad acres, honored by the British Government, a member of the House of Burgesses. At 33, the author of the Declaration of Independence was, with Washington and Franklin, one of the few Americans who belonged on any list of the world's great...
Teacher's Career. Her sisters are married to a minister and a college president; Mildred chose another career. At 20, she launched into teaching: at Monticello Seminary, Godfrey, Ill., a job which her father arranged; at Francis Parker, where she taught eighth grade; at Tusculum College in Greenville, Tenn., where she arrived with her hair bobbed, shocking Tennesseans in 1923; at Oberlin, where she was dean of women; and finally to Wellesley, where she became a college president...