Word: philo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philo Holcomb won first place for Lowell in Thursday's foil matches by defeating Christopher Del Sesto of Adams, 5 to 0. Charles Rutledge of Winthrop and Gene Law of Dunster tied for third place...
...national average). He accomplished this chiefly by pioneering many technical advances in the industry. In 1947 Sporn helped develop AGE's 330,000-kw., high-voltage transmission lines, the most powerful (and therefore most economical) in the U.S. Sporn will soon start operating the first U.S. power plant (Philo, Ohio) in which ultra-high-pressure steam is used to generate power...
Students of the period note that first century authors--Pliny the Elder, Philo and Jesephus,--describe the Essenes in terms which well fit the Qumran community. Archeologists believe that the settlement was the center of Essene life. The people probably lived communally while establishing their great library, and apparently washed, or were baptized daily, as evidenced by many aquaducts and a lavatory which were unearthed in the excavation. Their leader was a prophet, "The Teacher of Righteousness...
...income from the James Gordon Bennett Fund has been awarded to Joseph Cooper '55 for a thesis entitled "The Legislative Veto: Its Promise and Its Perils," while Richard H. Ullman '55 will receive the income from the Philo Sherman Bennett Fund for his thesis "Two Americans in Moscow: A Study in Non-Professional Diplomacy...
...begun to conceive of a grander project, a series of books on the "Structure and Growth of Philosophic Systems from Plato to Spinoza," of which a revised edition of his Spinoza work would from the terminal point. Working "backwards and sideways," he next published a two-volume work on Philo (in 1947), which are the second volumes in the series. The third set on the Church Fathers, after a seven-year delay for revision, is now at the press, while the material for other books lies squeezed in two large manuscript filled filing cabinets at one end of the room...