Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sophomore and Junior concentrators in Slavic will take half-hour oral examinations on Russian literature to determine Honors candidacy, Albert B. Lord '34, chairman of the Slavic Department, announced yesterday. The experimental test, following recommendations made last spring by the Committee on Educational Policy, will be given during the second week...
This is hardly the stuff that cinematic dreams are made of. But Stevens and Scriptwriters Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett (who also wrote the Broadway play) are far more concerned with the stuff that life is made of, and the courage and dignity that man can summon from within himself when the only logical course seems to be to lie down and die. From the moment the refugees enter their hideaway, and Papa Frank announces the painful conditions of their survival-no daytime movement, speech or even use of the w.c. -the cramped loft thrums with a threat as foreboding...
...served three years as a Confederate private, mainly digging saltpeter for gunpowder in the hills near his lifelong home in Slant, Va.; of pneumonia; at a clinic in Kingsport, Tenn. Mountaineer Sailing, a rocking-chair pacifist ("Wars are all part of some scheme"), outlived the last Union soldier-Albert Woolson, who died in Duluth, Aug. 2, 1956-but not the Confederacy's Walter W. ("Old Reb") Williams, who lives in Houston and is the Civil War's last...
...Albert M. Greenfield, 71, resigned as chairman of Bankers Securities Corp. ($500 million annual sales from department stores, hotels, real estate and taxi-cabs), which he founded 31 years...
...given to fainting fits, who spent ten long years being hopelessly in love with the proud Duchess of Avalon. When she finally capitulated and came to his room, Francis, "maladroit as ever," took the occasion to die. Then there was Thomas Vanbrugh (born 1861), a captain in Prince Albert's Regiment of Assam Light Infantry in India, who gallantly disgraced himself during a native uprising when he ordered a retreat solely to save the local British Resident's wife, a dauntless lady with a superior figure. Finally, there was Edward Vanbrugh (born 1891), the narrator...