Word: nathaniel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Charles Wilkes was not the first to find antarctic land-that had been done 20 years earlier by Nathaniel Brown Palmer, a Connecticut sealing captain-but he was the first to make enough landfalls to establish an Antarctic Continent. After the War of 1812, whaling and sealing began to spread into the Antarctic Ocean, and the New England skippers asked the Government for information and charts. Congress approved a naval expedition, settled its command on Lieut. Charles Wilkes, a scholarly, hot-tempered, opinionated martinet...
Brill's record of 47 proposals received in one day breaks the former mark set 88 years ago by Nathaniel Abernathy Rinehart '54, who caused the first Yard riot by receiving 42 proposals of marriage from the students of the old Harvard Annex in front of the John Harvard statue in February...
Arthur S. Harris, Richard Harte, Jr., Henry R. Heyburn, Jack H. James, Donald C. Johnson, Maxwell Kaufer, Nathaniel P. Lauriat, W. Gordon Lyle...
...State Organizer of Labor's Non-partisan League. Gabriel Piemonte, former chairman of the North End Planning Board, will speak on the need for youth centers; Henry Deas, Chairman of the New England Council of Colored Youth, will speak on the activities of colored youth in New England; and Nathaniel Mills, Jr. will speak on what the Massachusetts Youth Council is planning to do to to help keep America out of war and to help pass the American Youth...
...fulfill the long-felt need for easily available good music," a group of Freshmen, headed by Nathaniel P. Lauriat '43, have organized a series of concerts of classical music, held at 7 o'clock on Sunday and Thursday evenings in the Union...