Word: nason
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roberts-he comes from Maine. Even before there were 13 colonies, Boston theocrats found out that the rest of the country might or might not go as Maine goes, but Maine would keep right on going its own way. One of the earliest men to settle there was Richard Nason who arrived in Kittery before 1639. Toward the end of the last century, Grandmother Jane Nason Tibbets used to take six-year-old Grandson Kenneth Roberts on her knee, tell him bedtime stories about Indian massacres-burning villages, murdered and mutilated men; women and little children trudging through the deep...
...Jerry Nason of the Globe: "Harvard is no weaker than last year and Army is certainly no stronger. Harvard should win 14 to 6. But watch Mazur, who passes and kicks as well as Charley O'Rourke. There was no back on the Freshman team at B. C. as good...
...last autumn that he would quit to become director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, it was a good bet that he would pick his own successor. Swarthmore's faculty, alumni and trustees last week elected as president Dr. Aydelotte's assistant, Professor John William Nason...
President-elect Nason is a bright young man. St. Paul-born, he was graduated summa cum laude from Minnesota's Carleton College (1926), studied a year at Yale Divinity School, a year at Harvard Graduate School, went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Since 1931 Mr. Nason has taught philosophy at Quaker Swarthmore. He married a Quaker, two years ago became one himself...