Word: technician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Sir Frederick Grant Banting, 47, University of Toronto professor, who won the Nobel Prize (1923) as co-discoverer of insulin; and Henrietta Ball, 27, laboratory technician; his second, her first; in Toronto...
...much of a power inside the Soviet Union. He was not even a member of the Political Bureau and had been a member of the Communist Party's Central Committee for only five years. He probably did not even formulate Soviet Foreign policy; he was a brilliant diplomatic technician. But in the world's eyes he was identified with that era of Soviet policy when the U. S. S. R. backed up strongly every move to curb the aggressors, pushed forward the principles of collective security, allied itself with democracies, put its face squarely against dictatorships. Was that...
...broadest of the new examinations are those for the positions of Junior Economist and Junior Administrative Technician. These require that the applicant shall have majored either in Economics or Government while in college. In addition, other more specialized fields are open to the biologist, the chemist, and the physicist...
Over a period of nearly 20 years the Antwerp Bell Telephone Co. alternately hired & fired Leo Frenssen, an able telephonic technician but about as dependable as the late Count Leo Tolstoi, whom he mystically resembles. Once Leo Frenssen was an enrolled member of the Belgian Communist Party. He resigned with the declaration: "I am convinced that Communism is now the wrong theory-I am for peace, and I believe that every conflict can be settled peaceably if some imagination is used...
With Architect van der Rohe at Armour this month will be two other old Bauhaus men, Ludwig Hilberseimer, expert on city planning, and Walter Peterhans, technician in photography. Under this triumvirate Armour students will tackle a trivium: materials, functions, design. As to what is expected of them: "[This educational method] would serve no purpose," says Mies van der Rohe, "unless ... it were to lead without fail to a clear and un equivocal spiritual orientation...