Word: nathaniel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Timidly, she went to her managing editor one day in 1896 with a bright idea: a column of advice for any reader with a worry. Asked bluff, bay-windowed Major Nathaniel Burbank: "And how do you want to sign...
Copperfield at 40. "Success," observed Nathaniel Hawthorne, from his vantage point as American consul in Liverpool, "makes an Englishman intolerable, [but] an Englishman in adversity is a very respectable character." When successful Charles Dickens looked back on the adversities of his childhood, he found them too painful to disclose even to his wife: not until he was almost 40 could he bear to relive them, and to cast them from him into David Copperfield. Father John Dickens, the original of Micawber-"a jovial opportunist . . . who borrowed from anyone foolish enough to make him cash advances"-took twelve-year-old Charles...
...Nathaniel Donald Gamage...
...Nathaniel Stone Clifford...
Before the pre-Civil War era, it cannot be said that the college grew by leaps and bounds. It is doubtful that there was much of a library at all when Nathaniel Eaton taught his classes in the old Peyntree estate in "Newtowne," for John Harvard's 400 volumes did not receive a permanent location until the first College building was nearing completion...