Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Cahn, a varsity half miler, was the first across the line, Dyke Benjamin ran the fastest time of 18:16 for the cross country distance. Cahn's time...
...they have a marvelous colonial blown-glass harmonica--and not one of those Benjamin Franklin mechanized jobs either. Only one glass broken... no, Corning won't do it... I said they ought to try Steuben...
...troubles, when sensitive men became angry about the near starvation of their near neighbors. Agee's book dealt with Southern sharecroppers in the U.S. Orwell's people had an even smaller share in any crop: they were the barely fed and scarcely tolerated unemployed of England. What Benjamin Disraeli called England's "two nations" had in the '30s bred a third - the untouchables of 20th century industrialism. Orwell, born a Brahmin, lived among them like a martyr...
Lawbones. In Brawley, Calif., after helping Mexican field hands prepare legal action against a farm labor camp for practice of medicine without a license, Benjamin Yellen, M.D., was served with a warrant for practicing law without a license...
...wearing the head of a mouse. After him tumbled a lion, a camel, an owl and an ass. Their capers among the tombstones scarcely drew a second glance from the local citizens, for everybody recognized them as the star performers of the Aldeburgh Festival's current star attraction: Benjamin Britten's eagerly awaited new music drama, Noye's Fludde...