Word: wheatley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pieces of the nine years covered by his diary. But the diarist's true brilliance and worth are to be found in everyday doings. Abridgments, bowdlerizations, fine bindings, one-volume editions of Pepys have appeared in surfeit. But there has not been a complete new edition since H.B. Wheatley's in the 1890s, and that one like all its predecessors was riddled with mistakes, suppressions, minor and major omissions...
Messing began playing soccer as a sophomore at Wheatley High School on Long Island. "I was just as interested in the other sports I played during high school, but when I went to NYU I began to concentrate on goal-keeping," he said. He was elected to the All-America team as a sophomore in 1968, and after taking a year off, he shared the goal-tending duties with Bill Meyers for Harvard last year...
...many birds, mammals and even fish are known by canny hunters and anglers, and the biological rhythms of man are currently under study. Some people may make an effort at unpunctuality, but it is unlikely that man could willfully break free from a sense of time. ROBERT G. FERGUSON Wheatley...
Died. Gladys Mills Phipps, 87. grande dame of U.S. thoroughbred racing; in Westbury, N.Y. The wife of Financier Henry Carnegie Phipps, she founded her Wheatley Stable in 1929, hired such famed trainers as Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, Bill Winfrey and Eddie Neloy, and bred and raced a long list of champions. The greatest of her stallions was Bold Ruler, which grossed $764,204, winning 23 out of 33 races, then became the sport's leading stud from 1963 to 1969, with progeny that won purses of more than $12 million...
...forbidden to write, publish or even learn to read. Despite this prohibition, there were still about 100 Negro poets of varying significance before the Civil War, many of whom managed to publish their poems in church manuscripts or under white patronage. The best known was the Revolutionary poet Phillis Wheatley (who coined the phrase "first in peace" to describe George Washington and wrote heroic couplets in the style of Alexander Pope...