Word: newtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hans Sloane, a prosperous 18th century physician who developed a passion for collecting, scurried over the world like a pack rat, assembling books, manuscripts, Roman, Egyptian and Asiatic antiquities, coins, medals and works of art. Sloane's friends (among them: Isaac Newton, Samuel Pepys, Christopher Wren, Alexander Pope) sent him odd things from everywhere. One friend, Poet Thomas Hearne, versified that he had collected for the good doctor...
...Isaac Newton...
Modern scientists still feel as Newton did about the great ocean of undiscovered truth. In Scientific American, some topflight authorities describe the challenging mysteries that keep today's scientists baffled...
...William James Erwin, 52, vice president and general manager of South Carolina's Riegel Textile Corp., was named president of Dan River Mills, headless since President Russell Newton was ousted last October in a company shakeup. Erwin started as a textile engineer with Virginia's Consolidated Mills in 1921, switched to South Carolina's Republic Cotton Mills in 1934, to J. P. Stevens...
Bishop Waters' first blow against segregation was his order that the two Catholic churches of Newton Grove, N.C., one white, one Negro, merge their congregations last month (TIME, June 8). On none of the four Sundays since the bishop's order have more than 84 of the combined congregation of 440 turned up for Sunday Mass. But the bishop is confident that it is just a question of time...