Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Double Take. In Portsmouth, Ohio. Samuel Keaton was unable to produce for police all the loot he had stolen: some of it had been stolen...
...Samuel Seabury was asked why he kept McGuinness on the stand for six long hours. He replied: "Because I like to hear him talk...
...seven years of grater-voiced Bernard Samuel's regime as mayor, things have been quiet. There were mutterings but no major scandals. Then last fall city employees raised a clamor for a wage boost...
...Robinson Crusoe is not the only literary offspring of the Juan Fernández. In 1719, a mariner aboard the English privateer Speedwell shot a black albatross. Seven months later, the Speedwell was wrecked on Más-a-Tierra's rocky shore. On that episode Samuel Taylor Coleridge based the shooting of the albatross in The Rime oj the Ancient Mariner...
Occasionally, as last year, a note of political significance has entered the proceedings. In 1743, Samuel Adams, speaking to a Commencement Day audience that included the Governor of the Colony, said, "It is lawful to resist the chief magistrate if the state cannot otherwise be preserved," and a Harvard graduation became one of the first sounding boards for the American Revolution. Now, very much as two hundred years ago, a lot of people look to the Harvard Yard on the second Thursday of June. The dross and the libations have been diverted to other days of the year; the original...