Word: mccord
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McGraw Hill; $6.50), by Carey P. McCord, of Detroit's Industrial Health Conservancy Laboratories, and William N. Witheridge, ventilation engineer for General Motors...
...pleasantness or unpleasantness of an odor is mostly a matter of psychological conditioning. McCord and Witheridge point out that workers in horribly smelly places (such as glue factories) eat hearty meals while surrounded by putrefying carrion, but visitors in such surroundings get sick at the thought of eating anything. People whose minds are fully occupied are often unconscious of odors. "It may be doubted," observe McCord and Witheridge, "that the handful of men and women on Noah's Ark, with their own existence threatened, complained of animal odors about the place." But less preoccupied people than the Noah family...
This year's seniors will be the first ever to permit the College to spend the interest which the gift will earn from year to year, David T. W. McCord '21, chairman of the Fund Council, said yesterday. Interest on the traditional $100,000 gift usually amounts to $25,000 over the 25-year period...
...alumni raised a total of $544,156, McCord disclosed. Over the last two years a special campaign raised $1,500,000 to endow Lamont Library...
Clearest instance of the picture's split personality is the work of Cameraman Ted McCord. Perhaps a third of his shots are as pure, subtle and powerful as the whole of his Treasure of Sierra Madre-i.e., as good as the best in movies. Perhaps a fourth are ornate salon stuff (gnarled trees in silhouette, etc.), often mistaken for Art. The rest is high-grade Hollywood sound stage. It is not hard to believe that one cameraman is capable of all three kinds, but it is hard to understand why a man capable of the best could willingly...