Word: defied
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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According to Charles Baudelaire's defi-nition-by-negation of a superior man-"He is not a specialist"-Benjamin Franklin was one of the most superior men who ever lived. He was also, according to Phillips Russell's widely read biography, "the first civilized American." Superior or merely civilized, he certainly spread himself. Almost everyone now knows that he invented the lightning rod and bifocal glasses, that he-founded the Saturday Evening Post and the Philosophical Society of America, but even the brighter college students may be surprised to learn that he was a glass manufacturer who designed...