Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Samuel J. Novick, radar-parts manufacturer during World War II, reportedly sponsor of wartime Atom Spy Arthur Adams as an immigrant to the U.S. and backer of Communist causes and front organizations...
THUS wrote James Fenimore Cooper of the Marquis de Lafayette, shortly after the portrait opposite was painted. Cooper's words give some idea of the size of the task that faced Samuel Finley Breese Morse when he came to paint the portrait in 1826. Morse painted the picture just after his wife died, and he apologized later: "A picture painted under such circumstances can scarcely be expected to do the artist justice, and, as a work of art, I cannot praise...
...highest in 24 years (see BUSINESS). Another way is to cut Government spending, which would mean a cut in Government-financed demand for labor. But perhaps the most important way is for organized labor and big-business management to find a temporary new definition of progress beyond Samuel Gompers' historic American Federation of Labor cry for "More...
Gilsonite is one of nature's freaks, a petroleum-like substance which, through geologic accident, failed to liquefy. The man who first saw the commercial possibilities of Gilsonite was Samuel H. Gilson, a U.S. deputy marshal in Utah and part-time prospector. One day in the 1880s while prospecting in eastern Utah's Uintah Basin, he found a crumbly, shiny, black substance which he mistook for a new form of coal. But when he tried to burn it, it melted. It was one of the world's largest known deposits of a natural pitch substance similar...
...guarded from William the Conqueror on All Hallows' altar; erring Knights Templar were tried there for heresy in the 14th century, and the headless body of many a wrong-guessing notable was brought there from the nearby Tower of London for burial. In the Great Fire of 1666, Samuel Pepys saw All Hallows saved by Admiral Penn (father of Pennsylvania's William), who gave orders to men of the Navy Yard to blow up the surrounding houses...