Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Samuel Eliot Morison, professor of History, announced last night as chairman of the Committee on Arms, Seals, Diplomas, etc. that beginning with the Commencement Exercises of 1938 the official bachelor's gown would be of the short, low-necked type rather than the longer, high-necked style characteristic of recent years...
...degree, written in Latin, was signed by all the member of the Corporation excepting John Hancock, who was in Philadelphia practicing signing the Declaration of Independence, and it was immediately published in the newspapers with an English translation. The diploma was composed by Samuel Langdon of the Class of 1740, who was President of the University from 1774 to 1780; this document still stands on the records of the Corporation...
...Ireland. Fear or sorrow or both oppressed every home, replacing for the time the carefree spirit usually found on the Emerald Isle. The "Informer" pointed up sharply the savagery of the period, and left undone the story of the personal tragedies behind the killings. So splendid and beautiful is Samuel Goldwyn's "Beloved Enemy" that no other picture of the romance in the civil war is likely to be filmed for some time to come...
Chief rival of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to succeed Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister is the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Samuel Hoare, who last week scored heavy personal and political gains with a speech on naval and air defense which caught the warm approval of the House, recalled that Sir Samuel not many years ago was Secretary for Air and today is promoting close co-operation between these two fighting services, previously too often on quarrelsome terms...
...Angeles, when Samuel Whitaker was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his wife, he flung up his arms, cried: "If I am guilty of this horrible crime, may God strike me dead before I get to my cell." Before he reached his cell at San Quentin Prison, Samuel Whitaker suffered a heart attack, fell dead...