Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First voice: "Samuel Johnson died...
Although the hall had only sixteen rooms, it somehow managed to house two hundred and forty men during the Revolution when a Provincial Congress commandeered Harvard dormitories. Among the Revolutionaries were Samuel and Ebenezer. Hall, who used the building as the headquarters of the "New England Chronicle and Essex Gazette." This short-lived publication, according to a contemporary, emitted "streams of intelligence and those patriotic songs and tracts which so pre-eminently animated the defenders of American liberty." All the enthusiasm aroused by rebellion must have subverted the Puritan spirit of Stoughton, for the foundations soon began to crumble...
These facts were turned up in a careful survey conducted by Presbyterian Minister-Sociologist Dr. Samuel Blizzard, 40, who was commissioned two years ago by the Russell Sage Foundation to collaborate with Union Theological Seminary in "A Study of the Functions of the Parish Minister." Dr. Blizzard sent out some 1,600 detailed questionnaires to seven "panels of informants" in all but one (Nevada) of the 48 states, in every economic and social area, and from more than 20 major denominations...
...than a boast: "There is now preparing for the press, and in great forwardness, in two volumes in folio, an English dictionary; etymological, analogical, syntactical, explanatory, and critical." Who could have undertaken such a gargantuan task? In 1755. when the two volumes came out, the world became aware that Samuel Johnson would forever be famous as Dictionary Johnson...
...Samuel A. Levine of Harvard Medical School told the convention that relatively few patients with heart disease should have to be sent away from home for expensive diagnosis. In 90% of the cases, a family doctor with proper training should be able to make a diagnosis...