Amasa
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — As the third president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Francis Amasa Walker helped usher the school into national prominence in the late 1800s.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2021
Amasa spent most of his early years in Florida, but a bookkeeping job took him to Finchburg, Alabama, where he met Harper Lee’s mother, Frances Cunningham Finch.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 10, 2018
Mills said that while researching the book, she talked to people who remembered the sisters’ father, Amasa Coleman Lee, a lawyer, playing golf in a three-piece suit.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2016
It was widely understood that Ms. Lee modeled Atticus on her father, Amasa Coleman “A.C.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2016
"It's father's old workshop; there's nothing there," Amasa said.
From Harper's Round Table, October 15, 1895 by Various
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