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| 1. | Sir Angus (Frank John⋅stone) [jon-stuhn, -suhn] , 1913–91, English writer. |
| 2. | August, 1945-2005, U.S. playwright. |
| 3. | Charles Thom⋅son Rees [tom-suhn-rees] , 1869–1959, Scottish physicist: Nobel prize 1927. |
| 4. | Edith Bolling (Galt), 1872–1961, U.S. first lady 1915–21 (second wife of Woodrow Wilson). |
| 5. | Edmund, 1895–1972, U.S. literary and social critic. |
| 6. | Ellen Louise Axson, 1860–1914, U.S. first lady 1913–14 (first wife of Woodrow Wilson). |
| 7. | Harriet, 1825–1900, U.S. novelist: first African American woman to publish a novel. |
| 8. | Henry (Jeremiah Jones Colbath or Colbaith), 1812–75, U.S. politician: vice president of the U.S. 1873–75. |
| 9. | James, 1742–98, U.S. jurist, born in Scotland: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1789–98. |
| 10. | Sir (James) Harold, 1916–95, British statesman: prime minister 1964–70, 1974–76. |
| 11. | John (“Christopher North”), 1785–1854, Scottish poet, journalist, and critic. |
| 12. | Lanford [lan-ferd] , born 1937, U.S. playwright. |
| 13. | Robert W(oodrow), born 1936, U.S. radio astronomer: Nobel prize for physics 1978. |
| 14. | Sloan, born 1920, U.S. journalist and novelist. |
| 15. | (Thomas) Woodrow, 1856–1924, 28th president of the U.S. 1913–21: Nobel peace prize 1919. |
| 16. | Mount, a mountain in SW California, near Pasadena: observatory. 5710 ft. (1740 m). |
| 17. | a city in E North Carolina. 34,424. |
| 18. | a male given name. |
| Wilson, (Thomas) The 28th President of the United States (1913-1921), whose administration was marked by World War I and the introduction of prohibition. At the Paris Peace Conference (1919) he included the establishment of the League of Nations as a proviso of the Treaty of Versailles. The winner of the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize, he was unable to convince the U.S. Senate to ratify the treaty. Wil·so'ni·an (-sō'nē-ən) adj. |
A political leader and educator of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A Democrat, he was elected president in 1912 after serving as president of Princeton University (see Ivy League) and as governor of New Jersey. Wilson was president from 1913 to 1921. He tried to keep the United States neutral after World War I broke out in 1914; his campaign slogan in 1916 was “He kept us out of war.” After Germany had repeatedly violated the neutral status of the United States, the country finally did enter the war in 1917, with Wilson maintaining that “the world must be made safe for democracy.” Wilson produced his aims for peace, Fourteen Points, soon afterward. At Wilson's insistence, the treaty that ended the war provided for a new international organization, the League of Nations. Wilson was bitterly disappointed when the United States Senate later refused to permit the United States to join the League. He went on a strenuous speaking tour to convince the American public of the League's importance. While on the tour, he suffered a stroke, from which he never fully recovered. In 1919, Wilson was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace.