Word: parson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neglected by his time. It is also traditional and mildly touching, and it presents an image of the ideal man of letters just as Douglas Southall Freeman's R. E. Lee projects the ideal military man. Among U.S. academicians, it is cherished as the schoolboy once cherished Parson Weems's Life of Washington...
...bargain sale." He demonstrated his own detective brilliance when a colored clergyman was sentenced to seven years in jail for a crime that Doyle was convinced he had never committed. Using Holmes's own methods, Doyle tracked down the real criminal and vindicated the imprisoned parson...
...Crimson trackmen how it's done. Dodds wasn't just on a sight-seeing tour. He precedes his Wheaton College (Illinois) track team, which he is entering in the annual B.A.A. Games Saturday. Coach Jaakko Mikkola was not particularly awed by Dodds's performance. He noted that the "flying parson" was "out of condition and quite a bit below his usual time...
...something of a pioneer. Miss Cam was born 63 years ago in Essex County, England. "I think the most unusual thing about my childhood was that I had no formal schooling. I was one of nine children. My mother came from an Oxford background, and my father was a parson, and together they educated us all. I tried three times to get into Oxford by passing the 'locals' but couldn't. They did, however, show I had a proficiency for history so when I went to the University of London that became my primary study. After graduation, I received...
Francis C. Parson of Lowell House, and Waltham: Rifle Club, Harvard Young Republicans Club, Baseball and Crew...