Word: surveyor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sympathizers, however, defended the work of their spirited night owls last night. They observed that the letters in M.I.T. are all straight lines, and could be laid down with a surveyor's transit and a slide rule...
...Progress. Its subject is a man's obsessive struggle to achieve God (the Castle)-who does not recognize man's vocation-while trying to integrate himself in the community of men (the village at the foot of the Castle)-who do not want him. K., a land surveyor, believes that he has been ordered to take a job at the Castle. But when he arrives, at night, in winter, he is rudely ordered off the premises. The Castle authorities (a vast, apparently shiftless bureaucracy) first deny that K. has a job there at all, then grudgingly concede that...
Militarism and Harvard were recently thrown into the came wastebasket by that dyspeptic surveyor of the preparatory school, Porter Sargent '96, writing the yearly preface to his "Handbook of Private Schools." The latest of the last straws for the dean of Beacon Street was the simultaneous award last June of honorary Doctor of Laws degrees to four of the nation's top war commanders. When Generals MacArthur and Marshall return to pick up the two additional degrees promised them in their absence, Mr. Sargent's disgust will probably be complete. It has a right to be. Not only...
...some 20 percent of each class attained some prominence within each field (prominence being defined as inclusion in the professional yearbook. or "Who's Who"), while men with honor degrees achieved high places within the professions twice as readily as did non-honors men. As a final commentary, the surveyor, John B. Knox, of the Sociology Department, determined that the three best criteria for prominence were 1) graduation with honors, 2) literary achievement while in college, 3) executive accomplishment while in Cambridge as an undergraduate. Athletes were somewhat discriminated against by the Knox findings, which placed them...
Last week the U.S. added new counts to its indictment of the Russian grab. Washington protested Russia's stripping of Hungary (see FOREIGN NEWS), and Edwin W. Pauley, chief U.S. reparations surveyor, charged that Russia's looting of Manchuria had stopped the wheels of $2 billion worth of industries and set back by a generation the industrial advancement of 900 million Asiatics...