Word: willards
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Flash-Dater. Finding the age of ancient objects by radioactive Carbon 14 depends on supersensitive measuring apparatus. Professor Willard F. Libby, University of Chicago discoverer of Carbon 14 dating, uses a Geiger counter surrounded by a shield and other protections against intruding radiation. Chicago's Professor James R. Arnold announced last week an even more sensitive system...
...succeeds the Very Rev. Charles L. Taylor, dean of the Episcopal Theological School, who has been acting chairman during the past year, since former Dean Willard L. Sperry's retirement...
Finley is the fourth Harvard professor to win the Eastman seat at Oxford in the Professorship's ten-year history. He will take over the post from Willard Van Orman Quine, professor of Philosophy here...
...their crusade against the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina. Editor Willard Cole of the Whiteville News Reporter (circ. 5,007) and Editor Horace Carter of the Tabor City Tribune (circ. 1,500) won a Pulitzer Prize this year (TIME, May 11), the only one ever given to weekly papers. Last week Editor Cole was praised from another quarter for his journalistic enterprise. In the mail came an unsolicited letter from former Imperial Wizard Thomas L. Hamilton, who was sent to jail, along with 15 other Klansmen, as a result of the weeklies' crusade. Said Hamilton's letter...
...TIME, July 27) as too "controversial," even though there was never any evidence that he was a Communist or any question of his loyalty. Postmen knew that much of the protest against Ebey came from local women who had once helped prevent Pasadena's ex-Superintendent of Schools Willard E. Goslin ("A very controversial figure") from speaking in Houston. They had also helped force the schools to ban a U.N. essay contest. But when Newsman O'Leary began his spadework, he found the digging hard...