Word: portsmouth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Four-hundred-twenty pounds from the town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire "for the advancement of good literature" at Harvard, would not make a very large impression now, but if it had not been for such a gift in 1669, there might have been no Harvard to impress...
...History of Harvard University," written in 1840, Josiah Quincy, of the Class of 1790, president of Harvard College from 1820 to 1845, tells of a time during the presidency of Charles Chauncey when the financial condition of the College was so bad that a gift from Portsmouth of 60 pounds a year for seven years was as "pennies from Heaven...
Died. Admiral Henry Thomas Mayo, 79, U.S.N. retired, Wartime Commander in Chief of the Atlantic Fleet; of heart disease; at the Portsmouth, N. H. home...
...month into the happy company of his cousins, the Burne-Joneses, whose house was loud with jolly artistic atmosphere, portentous with such figures as William Morris and Robert Browning in the offing. When Kipling's family discovered what kind of treatment he had been getting at Portsmouth (his mother visited him, went up to his room to say goodnight, and "I flung up an arm to guard off the cuff I had been trained to expect"), they immediately rescued him, took him off to a country cottage. There he met his cousin, one Stanley Baldwin. At 11 Rudyard...
...week's end at Wheeling, W. Va.'s island in midriver, householders were scrubbing mud from their recently submerged floors, shoveling debris from their sidewalks. Portsmouth, Ohio, a sump within its $750,000 seawall which the flood had topped, watched the muddy waters gradually sink back through the sewer gates as the river receded. Cincinnati, perched on its hills, up to its waist in water, felt the chilly flood fall slowly back, trembled as its gas mains were reported leaking,, a bigger fire menace than when gas tanks bobbed among its factories in the flood (TIME...