Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of the overall University push for new gains and advances in terms of equipment and building," Samuel Howard Miller, Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, said yesterday...
...your review of John McGahern's The Dark [Feb. 18], you quote Samuel Johnson: "The Irish are a fair people. They never speak well of one another." They don't act well to one another either. The Dark has been banned from Ireland, and McGahern has lost his teaching post at a Dublin school. He has, it seems, committed two unforgivable sins: not only has he written a "dirty" book; he has also (God protect us from all harm) married outside the church...
That Boy. At Manhattan's University Club last week, the galleries were packed as two of the game's fiercest competitors had at each other in the finals of the National Singles championship. The favorite in private betting (at 5 to 3) was Samuel Purdy Howe III, 27, a Social Register Philadelphian who wears shirts monogrammed SPH in and learned the game as a child at Pennsylvania's exclusive Merion Cricket Club. His opponent in the finals: Victor Niederhoffer, 22, son of a former New York City policeman, who attended Brooklyn's Abraham Lincoln High School...
...William Samuel Rosenberg began to attract attention as an undersized schoolboy. He became a winning sprinter "by jumping the gun without detection." Soon afterward he stopped growing. But he kept on running, and he never stopped jumping the competition. He was too tiny-5 ft. 3 in.-to compete physically, so he decided to lead with his right: he became a stenographer. The day before he was to compete in a worldwide shorthand contest, he broke an index finger. He worked his way around the injury by jamming his pen through a potato, then took dictation while holding the potato...
...point. The author may not be true to life but he is true to significance. He may be uncertain in technique but he is sure of what he feels and means, and he is honest in a way that is traditionally Irish. "The Irish are a fair people," Samuel Johnson wrote. "They never speak well of one another...