Word: d
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While hearing this piece of optimism, the A.S.M.E. also honored, as the year's best technical paper by an undergraduate, a piece of rocket-pessimism by George D. Lewis of the University of Connecticut. Engineer Lewis, who now works for Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co., argued mathematically that a single-stage, chemically fueled rocket cannot escape from the earth's gravitation...
...Waldorf-in Dallas-which he bought with the help of a syndicate of friends. In deal No. 4, he bought Fort Worth's Terminal Hotel with two partners and learned that there were more dangers for a hotelman than the complaints of dissatisfied guests. One of his partners, D. E. Soderman, thought he was being cheated, stalked down the third partner and shot him dead. When Soderman got out of jail, he phoned Hilton and asked to see him. Fearing that he was next on the list, Hilton told Soderman to come to his office-and laid his Army...
...winners, Geoffrey D. Bush '50 of Cambridge and Eliot House, Stephen J. Brademas '49 1G of South Bend, Indiana and Perkins Hall, Francis G. Steiner 1G of New York and 30 Ash Street, Cambridge, will receive grants of 500 pounds ($1,400) annually for study at Oxford University in England...
Presentation to Moors Hall of a painting of Maria Buckminster, great-grand -mother of Moors, was announced by President Jordan. Donor of the painting was Thomas D. Cabot '19, nephew of Moors and a Radcliffe trustee...
...Radcliffe won't be allowed in Lamont in the morning because, said Metclaf, "we'd get ourselves in all kinds of messes, especially book collections, if we opened the building to the girls at one time and not at another...