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Dr. Kenneth Arrow applied for Columbia University at 15 years old. The minimum age of acceptance was 16 years old....

Lavenia Breaux had to find out through the grapevine that her friend had been killed. Sensitive information like that...

Joseph Mittelsdorf enjoyed swimming and diving for lobsters at night in Hawaii [Annotator's Note: as part of the 5th...

Snapp was born in Washington D.C. She lived there for about two years and then moved to Colorado. She eventually moved...

Back in North Dakota after the war, Verna White waited for six months for her husband to return home from occupation...

Loraine Osborne was born in Prestonsburg, Kentucky in 1925. She grew up on a farm. They canned everything. When they...

Ernest Jackson was born in Sumter, South Carolina. His family migrated [Annotator's Note: Great Migration, or Black...

At Oak Ridge [Annotator's Note: Oak Ridge, Tennessee], there were three shifts running all the time. Dieter Gruen...

Catherine Long had boot training in the Navy. Her parents had no objection to her joining the service. Her father was...

Doctor James B. Heneghan's father was a civil engineer. He helped design the very first pre-stressed concrete arches...

Walter Imahara was four years old when he went into the camp. They were first sent to an assembly center in Fresno...

Everything in speech begins with the ear and Lauren Swinney had a good ear for languages. She does fairly well with...

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