Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Theodore C. Osborne '37, of 367 Beacon street, Boston, has been awarded the Jacob Wendell Scholarship, one of the leading undergraduate honors at Harvard College, it was announced yesterday...
...Bedford, Mass.: Jacob Horowitz '38, of New Bedford, Mass...
...Inventor Charles Jacob Young, shy son of famed Owen D., expounded his facsimile radio, lately come into practical use. It transmits carbon copies of almost anything through the air.* Young Mr. Young works for RCA-Victor of Camden, N. J., subsidiary of Radio Corp. of America, and although his father was until lately board chairman of the parent company, Son Charles is a self-made scientist...
Each plate in the set, which was conceived after the Lincoln volume was contemplated, is a print made from the original negative and pasted in. Some of the figures in the rest of the set include: Henry Clay, Queen Victoria, "Boss" Tweed, John Jacob Astor, Emperor Maximilian of Maxico, and Oscar Wilde...
...pachyderm arrived as the result of a little speculative adventure on the part of Captain Jacob Crowninshield, of the Salem family of Crowninshields, who bought it at a bargain sale in Bengal for $450, only to sell it the minute it walked off the pier in New York...