Word: simon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other new AVC officers are Simon O'Leary, vice chairman; Morton Sills, treasurer; Thomas Donahue, secretary, and Charles Cobb, delegate to the Area Council...
When his jailer (named Simon just like Louis XVI's) came in to tell him that some tomatoes which had long been ripening in the yard outside were at last growing red, the old Marshal turned on him. "Bah," he snapped, "they are blushing with shame...
...Colorado, the fur flew. The cause of the commotion was a grey, chunky, 75-year-old woman, who stumped up & down the state, making three speeches a day, buttonholing businessmen, doctors, politicians, writing letters morning & night. Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, "the greatest living woman scientist" (according to Dr. Simon Flexner, late famed director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research), was out to reduce Colorado's shockingly high death rate from disease...
...thinking smacks of Alice-in Wonderland in 1946. Western Europeans have shown little tendency to emigrate. Rather, the great mass of potential immigrants stem from Eastern Europe and seek no economic mecca but merely a simon simple escape from religious and political persecution. Objective tests have conclusively exposed the myth of racial superiority and inferiority. Thoroughly assimilated and educated, second generation Americans of Easttern and southern European stock have proved that previous environment, not race, accounted for the initially poor impressions made by their parents...
Bachelors of Arts (Out of Course), as of the Class of 1946: Melvin Breath Casey, Casimir de Rham Jr., Paul Martin Goldhill, William John Dean Kennedy, Marshall McKibben Kincaid, Cloyd Laporte Jr., Robert Leventall, John Stanley McCormick Jr., Joseph Menuel Paniello, John Ivan Simon, John Eliot Thayer...