Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gallons in 1900). All told, the nation consumes 231 billion gallons daily, more than enough to float the combined merchant fleets of the entire world; by 1975 consumption will soar to 402 billion gallons a day. One of the nation's top water experts, Army Engineers Chief Samuel Sturgis Jr., warns that the U.S. had better head off a shortage without further delay...
...Lively' shoves off for the West Indies and parts unknown . . . at 9:15 o'clock in the morning. Crew may obtain a chart of the West Indies by calling at Widener 417." To the crew concerned, the meaning of the notice was abundantly clear. It was simply Samuel Eliot Morison's salty way of telling his students the time and place of their midyear exam...
Letters in the Cellar. A grandson of Scholar Samuel Eliot, Morison had his tory virtually thrust upon him. The family house on Brimmer Street, where he still lives, was a rendezvous for Boston's great, and the family archives were a source library in themselves. At Harvard Morison fell under the spell of Charles Haskins, Edward Channing and Albert Bushnell Hart. He wrote his first book, Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis, partly from the boxes of letters stored in the family wine cellar. But aside from the influence of his teachers and ancestors, there was also...
Ever since January, said Dr. Samuel Shenkman, a Manhattan neurosurgeon, he had been trying to collect $9,500, his price for an operation on Campy's left hand. Campy had referred the bill to the Dodgers; the Dodgers had refused...
...President Eisenhower's direction, Assistant Secretary of State Samuel Waugh, a Nebraska banker, signed the OTC agreement for the U.S. last March. Though legally it was probably unnecessary for Eisenhower to submit OTC to Congress, he did it, as Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said, as a matter of courtesy. Moreover, the President knew that congressional blessing for OTC would have a psychological effect throughout the world, i.e., it would prove that not only the U.S. President but the U.S. Congress wanted a permanent policy of free world trade. When he sent OTC to Congress last April. Eisenhower...