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Word: seton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Rene Peroy's first call to arms early this week was answered by 19 men, who have been practicing in the Fencing Room of the Indoor Athletic Building. The schedule includes Brown, Seton Hall, Bowdoin, Columbia, Army, and Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FENCERS PRACTICE | 11/17/1939 | See Source »

Trailing Army and Navy, the fencing team nevertheless came out ahead of Yale and Princeton in the Annual Pentagonal Meet at Annapolis March 4. The Varsity's only defeat this year was at the hands of Seton Hall by the narrow margin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Fencing Team Highly Favored To Overcome Yale in Season's Finale | 3/18/1939 | See Source »

Interviewed in Manhattan, 78-year-old Naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton and his second wife, Julia Buttree Seton, 49, proudly announced that they were the parents of a five-month-old daughter, Beulah. Said Mrs. Seton: "People do look askance at us, and want to know if Beulah isn't our adopted daughter. They do not understand that Mr. Seton, despite his age, is just as youthful mentally, physically and spiritually as he has ever been." Interviewed again by a newshawk who had discovered that last June in Santa Fe they had filed adoption papers for the child, she said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 5, 1938 | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...Albert Payson Terhune, Ernest Thompson Seton, Donald Culross Peattie and Thornton Burgess all put their heads together, they would hardly be able to devise an animal fiction as strange as the animal fact which baffled San Antonio, Texas last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Treasure Hunt | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

Born in 1774, slender, brilliantly dark-eyed Elizabeth Ann Bayley, reports Father Feeney, was the most beautiful debutante of Manhattan in her day. One of her distant relatives is Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She was born a Protestant, married a handsome merchant, William Seton, bore him five children. They went to Italy to improve his frail health, instead were taken off their ship at Livorno and quarantined in a lazaretto because yellow fever had broken out before they left Manhattan. Cold, underfed, Elizabeth made no complaint but prayed in their dungeon while in the next room hard-bitten sailors cursed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Saintly Mother | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

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