Word: xenophon
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...Stone School at nearby Darlington. William worked his way through Washington College, was licensed as a Presbyterian minister, branched out as a schoolmaster. Hired in 1826 by fledgling Miami, he arrived on his horse, in a sombre black coat and stovepipe hat, his saddlebags bulging with Livy, Horace, Ovid, Xenophon...
...seems to give him little satisfaction. A pot-bellied little man, whose brown, bald, elliptical head has developed an unmistakable resemblance to a football, he is the 44-year-old son of Jonathan Bible, Greek professor at Carson Newman College, who hopefully gave his son the middle name of Xenophon. Dana Xenophon Bible graduated from Carson Newman, did post-graduate work at Centre and North Carolina University, and then, in 1916, abruptly deserted an academic career to become football coach at Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College. In 1917 he joined the Air Corps, served as an instructor. He still flies occasionally...
...Coach D. 0. ("Tuss") McLaughry, it was decided that any coach who feels he is discharged unjustly, may appeal to a committee. The committee will investigate, report to the university president, publicize its findings. The committee will be named by the Association's president-elect, Coach Dana Xenophon Bible of Nebraska...
...gentleness, always taking his romance with a grain of salt and never once forgetting his station in life. We follow this troubadour and his disguise, waiting for him to betray himself and his vocation and we are not at all surprised to catch him meditating upon the companions of Xenophon when he comes upon the shores of Lake Balation...
...Disease. Xenophon, ancient Greek general, noted that many of his men had sore mouths and foul breaths. World War troops had the same. Dr. H. Jean Vincent discovered the cause long before the War when he was a French army surgeon with Colonial troops in Africa. Although Dr. Hugo Karl Plaut of Hamburg two years earlier (in 1894) reported the same cause, credit for discovery goes to Dr. Vincent. The disease is called variously Vincent's angina, trench mouth, ulcerated stomatitis, necrotic gingivitis. Two germs, which may be variant forms of the same microorganism, are always associated with trench...