Word: jacobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jacob was never much. His mother died of consumption when he was very small. Papa Djugashvili (who later called himself Stalin) used to try to toughen up little Jacob's lungs by blowing pipe smoke in his face. So Jacob took up smoking before he was ten; and his father had to beat him for that...
Papa Joe tried to make an engineer of Jacob, but Jacob was a lazy fellow. He would not study at technical school. Papa Joe is said to have said, "If you do not want to be an engineer, be a cobbler"-and packed Jacob off to an obscure corner of Georgia, where Papa Joe's own papa had been a cobbler...
...sending not only marines but trees to Iceland. In the July Journal of Forestry, a young, husky, German-born Colorado forester, Jacob Jauch, tells how he has unofficially exported enough seed from Colorado's cork-bark firs and spruces to produce some 125,000 trees for Iceland's chief forester, Hakon Bjarnason...
That is the way Dr. Jacob L. Moreno describes the life at his Psychodramatic Institute in Beacon, N.Y. Psychodrama is Dr. Moreno's method for treating mental ills-a sort of theatrical psychoanalysis which he uses for troubled mortals, as well as for Hitlers and Hamlets. Instead of lying on a couch and confiding their woes to a psychoanalyst, patients act out their problems, impromptu, on a bare little stage. Many a patient who is hostile or shy refuses at first to take part, suddenly blurts out his hidden neurosis...
...late professor of American history at the University of Illinois, for his historical study The Atlantic Migration; New York Daily News Editorial Writer Reuben Maury "for distinguished editorial writing during the year"; Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler for his columns on scandals in U.S. organized labor; Chicago Times Cartoonist Jacob Burck for his cartoon "If I Should Die Before I Wake," depicting a child praying in a bomb-shattered room; 53-year-old former College Professor Leonard Bacon, for his book of verse Sunderland Capture; Biographer Ola Elizabeth Winslow for her Jonathan Edwards; the St. Louis Post-Dispatch...