Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Samuel Dacke Harkness, 66, grew up in a background where theology was orthodox and strict. The son of a Scottish Presbyterian minister, young Sam earned a doctor's degree from Missouri Valley College and was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1908. But his experiences in the ministry soon began to jar loose some of the orthodox rivets in his Presbyterianism...
...Samuel B. Potter, Edward H. Fleischman, and Aaron R. Galhamer debated Princeton. George P. Baker, Julius T. Cage and Stephen R. Petschek went against the Yalies...
...Samuel V.K. Willson '50, who directed the Winthrop House production of "Pina-fore" earlier this year, heads the cast. It is Willson's first singing role...
...Other Pulitzer winners: Gian-Carlo Menotti, best music, in The Consul (TIME, May 1); South Pacific, best play; A. B. Guthrie, best novel, The Way West; Samuel Flagg Bemis, best biography, John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy; O. W. Larkin, best history, Art and Life in America; Gwendolyn Brooks, best poetry, Annie Allen; Seattle Times Reporter Edwin O. Guthman, best national reporting, in clearing a professor of Communist charges (TIME, Nov. 7); Christian Science Monitor Correspondent Edmund Stevens, best international reporting, on Russia; Chicago Daily News and St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for public service in exposing...
...London printer named Samuel Richardson helped change the course of literary history by writing that forerunner of the modern novel, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded. Fashionable London ladies wept till the rouge ran about Serving Maid Pamela Andrews' trials at the hands of her lecherous master, and marveled at the way she held him at bay with moral philosophy or (since he was prepared to go to any lengths of force) by dropping off into swoons that rendered her cold and stiff. Everyone sighed with relief when the repulsed rapist broke down and proposed marriage to Pamela-who of course...