Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Among other events at Gibeon mentioned in the Bible: the siege by Amorite kings which was lifted by Joshua as the sun stood still and stones rained down on the fleeing besiegers (Joshua 10); the slaughter of Amasa by Joab (II Samuel 20); Solomon's dream of wisdom (I Kings...
...Little Unnerving." Of the six lively colleges, the liveliest is Antioch (no church affiliation), the able, articulate rebel against academic convention. "This is the most exciting campus in America," boasts President Samuel Gould. "We can actually try out ideas in education. If they fall flat, there's no one to claw you to bits...
...hard rap on him since he served three years in Sing Sing for extortion back in 1937-40. Last week the law pushed over Johnny Dio's well-stocked applecart. In Manhattan, a General Sessions Court judge sentenced Dio and two of his henchmen, Max Chester and Samuel Goldstein, to two years' imprisonment and a $1,000 fine apiece. Their offense: conspiracy and bribery in taking $10,000, plus a promise of $20,000 more, from the proprietors of two electroplating firms in 1955 and 1956 as the price of a worthless guarantee to stop the "labor trouble...
...necked Yankee pastor, he conceived the notion that art can be purely "intellectual." While Morse was at Yale, President Timothy Dwight regularly admonished his students against all kinds of fun. "Recollect," Dwight would cry out, "that you are to give an account of your conduct at the last day." Samuel Morse felt quite at home in this stringent atmosphere. Along with painting, he dabbled in electricity, which alarmed his father. "Your natural disposition,'' warned the elder Morse, "renders it proper for me earnestly to recommend to you to attend to one thing at a time...
...last years of Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor, were filled with riches and honors; he lived to see a statue of himself erected in Central Park. But the "failure" of his painting hopes never ceased to rankle. "Alas," the artist-inventor wrote to his friend Cooper, "the very name of pictures produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe. Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me. I did not abandon her; she abandoned me. I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter...