George Washington

• “Late in 1753, in response, the royal governor of Virginia dispatched Major George Washington with a diplomatic protest to the French regional military commander at Fort Le Boeuf.”

  Simon & Schuster: Angel in the Whirlwind

• “But then, as farmers were feeling defeated and down, scientist George Washington Carver came up with an idea.”

  Simon & Schuster: It’s Your Time

• “Katherine is going on to do her Ph.D. in political science at George Washington University and has a very bright future ahead of her.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Longest War

• “Further depressing payment rates can only worsen the situation," says Sara Rosenbaum, chair of the health policy department at George Washington University.”

  USA Today: Medicaid payments go under the knife

• “He invented peanut butter, and visitors to George Washington Carver's monument can find out even more about him, while learning how to live like he did in the 19th century.”

  The Consumerist

• “As I floated in weightless joy back to my office, I considered for the billionth time that strange man known as George Washington Sherman Abbey.”

  Simon & Schuster: Riding Rockets

• “His name escapes me, but I think it might have been George Washington Carver.”

  Simon & Schuster: Roseanne Archy

• “But one day when I was racing eight-year-old Warren in for a “go-see,” as we exited the George Washington Bridge, he turned to me and asked, “What am I today, Mom, a big six or a small ten?””

  Simon & Schuster: Kitchen Privileges

• “Rather than passing into the golden annals of history, the crossing of the Delaware shall be held up as a failure; it shall be viewed as an ill-judged attack in which a rarely remembered general called George Washington met his death.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE TIME QUAKE

• “In this connection the reader may derive a ray of light from the fact that on the birth of the Second King's first son, an American missionary, who was on terms of intimacy with the father, named the child “George Washington”; and that child, the Prince George Washington Krom Mu'n Pawarwijagan, is the present Second King of Siam.”

  The English Governess at the Siamese Court

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