Word: aaron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WALT?Elizabeth Corbett?Stokes ($2.50). When Walt Whitman was seven years old he saw a shipwreck. "It made me shake, but I like to shake that way." When Walt was eleven Aaron Burr recommended the Arabian Nights to him. When he was thirteen Samuel Clemens told him of a Quaker preacher he had exhumed to make a death mask. Whitman shook again. By the time he was twenty he had successively been a typographer, reporter, editor, carpenter, novelist, teacher. A few months on a job and he shuffled off to another. He had such...
...pound class--Aaron Gordon G.Ed. defeated V. G. Warren '30 by decision...
...pound class--Aaron Gordon, 1G.Ed. vs. C. W. Wirth '30; R. W. Hale Jr. '30 vs. V. G. Warren...
...first president. The newly founded college was established in Dickinson's house at Elizabethtown, N. J. in May 1747. It was not removed to Princeton until a decade later. A majority of the first Board of Trustees of Princeton, and Dickinson's two successors in the president's chair, Aaron Burr and Jonathan Edwards, were also Yale graduates...
...Sovereigns, temporal or spiritual, the Pope is the least frequent borrower of money. His finances, like his spiritual power, are immeasurable,occult-defying the statistical art. They are also ancient. Aaron of Lincoln, twelfth Century genius of Jewish finance in England, is credited with the initiation of large scale Church financial policy. It was Blount & Cie., French bankers, who issued the last Vatican bond offering, in 1886, when Paris was the money-lending centre of the world. Last week it was the Protestant house of Halsey, Stuart† & Co., of Chicago and New York, who announced a forthcoming issue...