Word: sampson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bible, Samson was brought low by one wily woman. It took 458 women to undo mighty Sampson Nkbinde of Verulam, South Africa. Last week, in the biggest trial in South Africa's history, all 458 were tried for murder...
...other day Arthur Sampson of the "Herald" wrote that Harvard is not yet so "smooth and precise" as it was last year mainly because "Vernon Struck's clever faking ability is missed...
Well, Mr. Sampson may have something in this bucking back matter, but let us remember that at this time last year neither Mr. Sampson nor any one else were blowing the praises of Struck. As a matter of fact, Struck was not dubbed the "magnificent faker" and a few dozen "Alls" and a lot of other compliments until after he ran wild in the Princeton game...
...public, gagged war correspondents for another fortnight while the Navy made up its mind as to just where Cervera was. After Commodore Winfield Scott Schley had ventured close enough to sight a Spanish cruiser lying in plain view near the entrance to Santiago harbor, Admiral William T. Sampson determined to bottle up the enemy fleet by sinking a ship across the narrow harbor entrance. Because of his knowledge of ship construction, Lieutenant Richmond Pearson Hobson, nine years out of Annapolis, was chosen for the attempt. With seven volunteers aboard the stripped old collier Merrimac* he steamed up to the harbor...
...evening of January 25, 1873, ten members of the Class of 1874 assembled in the rooms of Mr. Cirrk. These were Eugene Nelson Aston, Samuel Belcher Clarke. Thomas Corlies, Frank Child Faulkner, George it win Haven, Edward Higginson, Charles Austin Mackintosh, Henry Childs Merwin, and Calvin Proctor Sampson...