Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honor of Scientist Dr. Hidelci Yukawa, Nobel Prizewinner in physics who is now teaching at Columbia University, Emperor Hirohito whittled out a bit of Japanese verse: / am very pleased to see The news in this morning's paper...
Publisher Lee sent a reporter to check up on a group of $7,500 houses in Pasco that the Columbia Construction Co. had sold to veterans. A group of tenants led by disabled Lloyd Kestin, a Pasco schoolteacher, had refused to sign their mortgages, claiming they had found building defects. While the Tri-City Herald investigated, the builder sued Kestin to compel him to sign. Next day, the Herald broke a series of stories supporting the veterans' charges...
...King's Men (Columbia), a movie version of Robert Penn Warren's 1947 Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, is a tabloid view of a power-mad politician who has set his heart on bossing the world. The best of recent Hollywood attempts to fuse studio and documentary styles, this slam-bang indictment of grass-roots demagoguery is full of punch and color: melodramatic shots of campaign barbecues, torchlight parades, legislative brawling and backroom political deals...
...other Ivy group officials had expressed views on this subject earlier in the week, and their comments were re-circulated yesterday. President Dwight D. Eisenhower of Columbia called for alumni support at a dinner Tuesday. "Unashemedly, I believe a University such as this should turn out top flight teams... I like to run over the other guy as much as he likes to run over...
Nevertheless, the fact remains that most company "ivory-hunters" consider a Harvard Business School man a better prospect than a graduate of any of the nation's 139 undergraduate business schools or five other graduate business schools (Stanford, Chicago, New York University, Dartmouth, and Columbia...