Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...junklike jumble of records, the police found bank books showing that Alexander Alexandroff possessed a fortune of about $20,000, also that he had become a U. S. citizen in 1937 under the name of Alexander Isaac Slowly, and owned more property under that name...
Such detective work is not precise enough for Professor Isaac Starr of the University of Pennsylvania. Says he: "The function of the heart is to pump blood, and an engineer investigating a pump which was not working properly would ... begin by estimating the output of the pump directly...
Good example of taleteller's detachment is The Stone of Chastity (Little, Brown; $2.50), a bit of delicate bawdry in a warless, now almost mythical England, written by a Malta-born curlylocks named Margery Sharp, author of The Nutmeg Tree. Professor Isaac Pounce disrupts the village of Gillenham by uncovering a legendary steppingstone from which unchaste lassies, unfaithful wives invariably slip into the brook.* Miss Carmen "Smith," the artists' model, slipped of course; but nobody expected that the stone would reveal the professor's mild nephew, Nicholas, to be a bastard-or that Nicholas would rejoice...
...memory of his boyhood idols, Director Lindheimer has named these races after jockeys who made old Washington Park famous at the turn of the century: immortal Isaac Murphy, slaveborn Negro who won four American and three Kentucky Derbies; whip-snapping Snapper Garrison, whose habit of coming from behind to win made "Garrison finish...
...diminutive Isaac Burton Tigrett of Jackson, Tenn. took on the presidency of diminutive (48 miles) Birmingham & Northwestern Railroad as a sideline to his banking business. Eight years later he was a dyed-in-the-wool railroad man, head of Gulf, Mobile & Northern, and going strong. Four times in the next 20 years Railroader Tigrett enlarged his line, each time taking over another road, until he had 824 miles of right of way from Jackson to Mobile and New Orleans. Last week he stepped out of the diminutive class, stood to get a major trunk line from St. Louis...