Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...millionaires' conference," as it was called, was almost as evangelical as it was economic. British Banker Sir Siegmund Warburg announced a new holding company that would pump an initial $100 million in capital into Israeli businesses. Sir Isaac Wolfson, head of Britain's Great Universal Stores, personally got fellow delegates to sign individual pledges of $24,000 to set up a company to insure new Israeli enterprises. Retired Republic Corp. Chairman Victor M. Carter pronounced himself "happy and satisfied" with a personal $2 million investment in Israel, then produced plans for $30 million worth of new projects involving...
...John Harvard Library was established by the Belknap Press of the University Press in 1955 to make important but inaccessible documents of American cultural history generally available. The collection includes such works as Frederick Hawkins Piercy's Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley and Isaac Ray's A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity...
...ISAAC B. GRAINGER...
...Houston, a school that only began playing major-college sports in 1946, it was the culmination of a building program that has already produced championship-caliber teams in golf, football and baseball. But basketball was luck. In 1964, Isaac Morehead, basketball coach at Texas Southern University, a predominantly Negro school, walked into the office of Houston Coach Guy Lewis and begged him to recruit a prospect from Eula Britton High School in rural Louisiana. The young man's name was Elvin Hayes; he played, said Morehead, like Bill Russell's younger brother. Morehead's reason for approaching...
...interest in education are special student editions and rates, free college advertisements, a weekly Teacher's Guide to TIME, classroom wall maps and charts, a study guide to the Foreign Policy Association's Great Decisions, and TIME's Guide to the Year 2000, written by Dr. Isaac Asimov, one of the world's foremost forecasters of future socio-scientific realities...