Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virginia stood together with Young Turks Minton of Indiana, Schwellenbach of Washington; the Old South's Cotton Ed Smith of South Carolina was ready to vote with the New South's Pepper of Florida. For the first time in many moons and many matters, Mississippi's Harrison and Bilbo, Utah's King and Thomas, were together. For in Washington this week were no pettifogging politicos seeking sewer projects. Every man was a Statesman...
Other teaching appointments are Robert A. Triffin, of Flobecq, Belgium, Instructor in Economics; Gordon A. Harrison, Oxford '37, Instructor in English; Claude M. Simpson Jr., Cambridge, Instructor in English; Russell J. Lutz, Belmont, Instructor in Forestry and Assistant to the Director of the Harvard Forest...
...Harrison announced himself 100% behind the President; rumors continued that George had shifted to the Administration side; Carter Glass said, out of the right side of his mouth: "Naturally, I would prefer to be on friendly terms with the White House...
...Systematic investigation of matter and energy without regard to immediate prac tical ends has turned out to be the most direct road to social riches." This is the basic thesis of Atoms In Action* published this week by George Russell Harrison, California-born professor of physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "In the long run," says he, "digging for truth has always proved not only more interesting, but more profitable, than digging for gold. If urged on by the love of digging, one digs deeper than if searching for some particular nugget. Practicality is inevitably shortsighted, and is self-handicapped...
...Atoms In Action, Author Harrison shows how the discoveries of fundamental science have been applied in communications, agriculture, glassmaking, radio, medicine, weather prediction, aviation, a dozen other technologies. Atoms In Action is not only authoritative but readable, for Author Harrison has a fine flair for colorful analogy, e.g., "When one of the modern atom-smashing devices is put into operation the atomic debris comes flying out like dirt from a gopher hole in which a very industrious puppy is scratching...