Word: sigma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reformation of the Japanese cannot be effected if their nation is to be kept in ignorance or denied scientific equipment, a resolution adopted Saturday by the Society of Sigma XI stated. Meeting in the Institute of Geographical Exploration in Cambridge, the Society of Technicians was at its 46th annual, convention. A copy of the resolution, protesting in American destruction of cyclotrons in Japan, was telegraphed to President Truman...
...UNESCO, Sigma XI hopes, will be a coordinating, rather than an operating group, planned to simplify the fraternity of specialists in diverse fields and to act as a body for the study of educational and allied problems on behalf of international cooperation. The UNESCO charter, as yet unaccepted by Congress, is promulgated to allow science and education to keep pace with the general trend toward international unity...
...DuBridge, Director of the Radiation Laboratory at M.I.T., will be guest speaker at the annual convention of the Society of Sigma XI which will be held in Fogg Museum this evening at 8:30. Business sessions will follow...
Then things began to hum. The great Lamaque and Sigma mines were discovered (1939 aggregate production value: nearly $7,000,000). Get-rich-quickers swarmed northward to pick up the nuggets in the wilderness. They stayed because the stories were not too far wrong...
...chew gum. Stiffly genteel throughout, the chaperones simply ignored a man with field glasses who peered from a nearby sundeck into the solarium of the Senator Hotel when the girls assembled there (fully clothed). At one point the young ladies were inducted into a "sorority" called Mu Alpha Sigma, which was invented by the contest directors solely for Miss America entrants. Its motto: Modesty, Ambition, Success...