Word: stanford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private eye in peewees, and though he always brings the villain to account, he usually tempers justice with money. At 41, bulb-nosed, thrice-married Actor Boone, a veteran of TV's Medic, is well-preserved in a rugged, meaty way (he was light-heavyweight boxing champion at Stanford). Has gun (Colt .44), will travel on horses, but much prefers sports cars...
...Palo Alto, scholars are given a private study, meeting rooms, a dining room, and use of the Stanford University library. In addition, secretarial and research assistance are provided. Special arrangements are made to facilitate work on projects...
...Tech is one behind the 'Cliffe in fourth place, having received 66 Merit winners, and Stanford, Yale, and Princeton complete the first seven. Altogether, 2,316 Merit Scholars have enrolled in a total of 343 colleges...
...Twain's often irreverent notions about God, Bible and his fellow men seem no more fearsome than a day in a college classroom. By the lights of modern determinist psychology, for instance, there is scarcely anything startling in this statement: "Sometimes a man is ... a born scoundrel-like Stanford White*-and upon him the world lavishes censure and dispraise; but he is only obeying the law of his nature. [The human race] did not invent itself, and it had nothing to do with the planning of its weak and foolish character...
...Brattain, for a flawless if slightly baffling discourse on transistors. The other Nobelmen in a second semester devoted to atomic physics: Columbia University's Dr. Polykarp Kusch (March 9), Caltech's Dr. Carl D. Anderson (May 6), Columbia's Dr. Isidor I. Rabi (May 15), Stanford's Dr. Felix Bloch (May 19), the University of California's chancellor, Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg (May 29), the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory's director, Dr. Edwin M. McMillan (June...