Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Politicians are apt to say a great many things," stated an officer in the R.O.T.C. yesterday while refuting the charge of Representative Plumley of Vermont...
...CRADLE BUILDER-Walter Schoenstedt-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). The man in this young German emigre's novel is a young German emigre, his wife, a Vermont girl, the-setting. Manhattan's Yorkville (German district) and an upstate farm. Central theme is the couple's slow, half-reluctant maturing through marriage and child-begetting. Complications are local Bund-boys, the young man's abortive infidelities, his gradual adjustment to a new country. Stringent in style, sensitive in its perceptions it is the work of a somewhat oldfashioned, gently talented German romantic poet, nicely translated...
This quality dour Alphonso Taft brought down from the dour uplands of Vermont in the 1830s. Grandfather Taft, Yale '33, looking for a quiet, middle-class town in which to practice law (his goal: yearly income of $3,000 to $5,000), was much taken with Cincinnati. There he lived abstemiously, labored industriously, austerely chose himself a Vermont bride. Fanny Phelps died after bearing him five children (three died in childhood) ; and after due consideration, Grandfather Taft chose happy, loving Louise Torrey, who bore him four sons and a daughter. Second of these sons was William Howard Taft, Yale...
...restoration of liberal education at Harvard by (1) the establishment of broad introductory courses required for distribution, and (2) the strengthening of the tutorial system. HARVARD RIFLE SCHEDULE February 10 Rhode Island February 10 Boston U. February 17 Bowdoin February 17 Norwich February 24 Northeastern March 2 Vermont March 9 M. I. T. March 9 Yale March 16 Norwich March 16 Brown March 20 Connecticut