Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conant took a quick shot at the Chemical business. He returned to the University for his Ph.D. and "he has remained there ever since." The choice of Conant for President by the Corporation in 1933 is also described. "The story is that Conant...spoke so eloquently of a friend's qualifications that the committee was given seriously to think of...him. It was the old New England story again, of the courtship of Myles Standish...the Corporation indicated that it would be interested in hearing further from Conant in his own behalf...
...Post moved into the black, Mrs. Thackrey was increasingly disturbed by the way Thackrey's editorials moved toward the Red line. Instead of being a "liberal democratic" spokesman, the Post was editorially pro-Wallace and anti-Marshall Plan, critical of U.S. policy and sympathetic to Soviet policy. Thackrey spoke at the pro-Soviet Waldorf-Astoria Cultural Conference (TIME, April 4), and printed his own three-column-long speech in the Post...
What violence these would do no one knew, but so many airplanes had met disaster far below sonic speed that the "sonic wall" had earned a fearful reputation. Designers and pilots spoke of it with awe. It was widely believed that when an airplane reached the speed of sound, it would disintegrate...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, was unable to testify because of his morning lecture schedule. Mather was named an active supporter of Communist fronts last week by Joseph B. Matthews, ex-Dies Committee investigator, who spoke in favor of the proposed amendment...
...field while the six competing teams stood in Olympiad fashion along the edge of the playing surface. The coach door opened and his Honor the Acting Governor William Addis struggled out and mounted the stands to his official box. The crowd was hushed as the Governor spoke. "I now open Rugby Week," he said. The crowd thought briefly of the half crown admission price and then cheered good naturedly. Two teams surged onto the turf. Rugby Week in Bermuda had indeed begun, and for pomp and parties, there is nothing quite like...