Word: naming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American appollation of wood-chuck is a corruption of the Indian name "wejak" or "weehak" influenced by the natural association of the rodent with the woods...
...Name Coolidge Treasurer...
...implies that we are being attacked and that we must defend ourselves. The phrase "peace blitz" has even been used here and there recently; it emphasizes this implication. But just where the danger lies in such a "blitz" is peculiarly unclear. Nor is it clear how, in the name of peace, you can defend yourself against the "blitz...
Last week Antonin Besse was in Aden and was not talking. Said an employee in his London branch office: "The old man won't like it that his name is out. For 50 years he has worked on the principle that the less people know about him, the less trouble he will have." Oxford authorities felt the same way. They did not have all the cash in hand yet, and as one undergraduate cracked: "They sure don't want to get the old man in a huff and have him take the money back. That would...
...writers have ever earned the love of their people as has this man whose real name was Samuel Rabinowitz, and who chose to call himself Sholom Aleichem ("peace be unto you"). His stories, published in paper booklets, were passed from hand to hand among European Jews. When he died in The Bronx in 1916, more than 100,000 people lined the streets of his funeral procession. He had said: "Let me be buried among the poor, that their graves may shine on mine, and mine on theirs...