Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...central Massachusetts college was founded in September of 1821, 45 miles west of Worcester as a seminary called the "Collegiate Charitable Institution." It has as its nominal founder men like Noah Webster and Samuel P. Dickinson, the grandfather of the poet Emily, but was largely made possible through the contributions and physical labor of more than thirteen hundred citizens of the neighboring countryside. Although it still instructs in "all branches of literature and science," it long ago adopted the surname of the renowned Indian hunter and has long since extended its influence beyond the sons of the Connecticut Valley farmers...
...Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, has customarily lectured in Government 112. Next year, however, Herbert J. Spiro, former teaching fellow in Government, will be promoted to an instructorship and will teach the course in cooperation with another unannounced lecturer. It has been reported that Harry M. Eckstein, teaching fellow in Government, will fill this position...
After two years, the two stevedores and their families were fed up. Meager public grants barely fed their wives and children (Lefty, 37, has four and The Rabbit, 39, has five). Lefty lost 22 Ibs. from worry and confinement. The two witnesses petitioned Judge Samuel Leibowitz to let them go home. Last week Leibowitz agreed-on remarkable conditions that throw more light on law enforcement in Brooklyn. Lefty and The Rabbit must never go near the waterfront, Judge Leibowitz ruled, and furthermore, they must live with police guards, who are to follow .them, even inside their homes, from living room...
...line of questioning. The hearing room grew tense; spectators in the rear stood on tiptoe. Could Jenkins, untried in the Washington jungle, accomplish the feat of cutting Joe McCarthy off? Not without a struggle. Joe insisted on his right to show "prejudice" on the part of the witness. Samuel Reber, he said, had made "vicious attacks" on Cohn and Schine. That brought Arkansas' Democratic Senator John McClellan, as spiny and tough as any razorback, into the dispute. Said McClellan: "You are giving testimony. I have a right to object at any time." Said Joe: "Don't object...
...night in 1709, a gang of bullies set fire to a thatched cottage in Epworth, England, where their censorious Anglican vicar lay sleeping. The Rev. Samuel Wesley and his family escaped in their nightshirts, but one small son got left behind in the rush. It took a valiant rescue effort to save five-year-old John Wesley from the flames, and when he was restored to his mother, she is supposed to have offered a prayer: "See-is not this a brand, plucked from the burning...