Word: ellsworth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three scholars will be: David Hawkins, professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado: Francis A. Laine, assistant professor of Classical Civilization at the Women's College of the University of North Carolina; and Ellsworth Woods, associate professor of Political Sciences at Western Michigan College...
...Edward Ellsworth Stewart, 56, was named president of National Dairy Products Corp., succeeding L. A. Van Bomel, who became chairman. A graduate of Carnegie Tech, Stewart did a hitch in the Navy during World War I, then got an engineering job with the Rieck-McJunkin Dairy Co. of Pittsburgh, subsidiary of National Dairy. In 1944, Stewart was named vice president of National Dairy to run Midwestern ice-cream and dairy operations, was promoted to executive vice president six years later...
...Ellsworth Bunker, 57, Manhattan businessman (board chairman, National Sugar Refining Co.) who went into the State Department only last year as Ambassador to Argentina, handled himself well enough in Peron's capital to be given a crack at a more important job: to take over Dunn's post in Italy...
Prairie Godiva. The trail-end towns seemed to be designed with two things in mind: receiving cattle and raising hell. The very names of towns like Dodge City, Ellsworth and Abilene made decent folk shudder in the 1870s. When a drunken cowboy boarded a train and demanded a ride to hell, the conductor told him: "Well, give me $2.50 and get off at Dodge." In a hair-triggered town, Dodge City's cemetery, Boot Hill, became the resting place of such characters as Horse Thief Pete, Broad Mamie, the Pecos Kid and Toothless Nell. Ellsworth was just about...
...critical study, Author Ellsworth Barnard scans the poet's lines closely, deliberately scants the poet's life. His book is the poorer for it, for in Robinson's case one of the clues to what he is driving at is knowledge of what he was driven by. When Critic Barnard is not busy unraveling the poet's knottier lines, he sees Robinson pretty much the way Robinson eventually saw himself: as an "idealist" in philosophy, a traditionalist in verse form, a liberal humanist in spirit...