Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Journalism has produced few more plausible hoaxes than H. L. Mencken's famed essay on the history of the U.S. bathtub. Mencken's yarn explains how a Cincinnati grain merchant named Adam Thompson caused the first tub to be constructed of sheet lead and Nicaragua mahogany back in 1842, how he built a pump with which a team of six Negroes lifted water into a tank in his house, how he ran a heating pipe through his chimney, and finally took the first modern bath...
Herbert A. Philbrick, for nine years a F. B. I. undercover man, will be the chief witness for the prosecution against Dirk Jan Struik, suspended Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor of Mathematics, District Attorney George E. Thompson announced yesterday...
...Randall Thompson '20, professor of Music and new chairman of the Music Department, announces the appointment of a new associate professor of Music, Stephen Tuttle, who taught at the University before the war, comes here from the University of Virginia. He will teach advanced harmony and a course in the English Virginialists...
Each clutching a box lunch (bread, olives, cheese, fruit) provided in haste by the American Friends of the Middle East (organized by. U.S. Columnist Dorothy Thompson), the hajjis were hustled aboard the big planes, 50 to a flight. All day long the transports shuttled back & forth to Jidda. One old man, deaf and blind at 85, was led aboard a plane by his son. "This is help sent by Allah," the son told the U.S. pilot. "We are linked together today by love and faith." Another passenger on the magic carpet provided by the U.S. was irascible old Mullah Kashani...
...problems-from the "homusicku" (homesick) Japanese boy who cannot eat fried eggs, to the Indian who refuses to shower in the nude ("I shall wear my swim suit"). For such students, Claremont found that drills on grammar and pronunciation were beside the point. "In six weeks," says Dean Emmett Thompson, "we've got to give them a complete course in Americana...