Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TOOK TO THE WOODS - Louise Dickinson Rich-Lippincott...
...considerable attention to the parallel development of Canada and Latin America. Ignoring unimportant U.S. Presidents, it gives most study to those Americans who have played a world role (e.g., Ben Franklin, Woodrow Wilson). Its texts include such original documents as the Resolves of the First Continental Congress and John Dickinson's Letters of a Farmer in Pennsylvania. Unusually sophisticated for undergraduates, it requires students to read such authors as French Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain, British Socialist Harold Laski, Congressional Librarian Archibald MacLeish, Machiavelli...
...largely to the pitching proficiency of one Private Johnny Lund, a big tobacco-chewing Swede from Portland, Ore., who holds the dubious distinction of being the property of the Philadelphia Phillies. Lund allowed only three hits, struck out nine in the seven-inning game. Losing pitcher was Aircraftsman George Dickinson, who was just as good. He gave only three hits in the five innings that he pitched -two of them veriest scratches -but four Australian errors, two of them his own, marked him as the losing pitcher with the score 2-to-1 when he withdrew...
...other profitable landmarks in Little, Brown's long history were the purchase, in 1898, of the list of Boston's now defunct Roberts Brothers, and a joint publishing agreement in 1925 with the Atlantic Monthly Co. The Roberts list brought Little, Brown properties like Poet Emily Dickinson, Novelist Helen Hunt Jackson (whose Ramona was the dernier cri of the '80s), Edward Everett Hale (The Man Without a Country), Louisa M. Alcott.* Under the arrangement with the Atlantic Monthly Press, the Atlantic Monthly acts as a kind of Little, Brown scout. This has brought Little, Brown books like...
Henry R. Hatfield, Professor of Accounting at the University of California, has been appointed to deliver the annual Dickinson Lectures on accounting at the Harvard Business School next April...