Word: 1940s
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Many expect Rudenstine to revive the position of provost, which last existed at Harvard in the 1940s. Rudenstine has said he believes that a provost, who would have a University-wide perspective similar to the president's, would help him achieve his goal of bringing the disparate parts of the University closer together. Rudenstine himself spent more than a decade as provost of Princeton University before stepping down...
Many expect Rudenstine to revive the position of provost, which last existed at Harvard in the 1940s. Rudenstine has said he believes that a provost, who would have a University-wide perspective similar to the president's, would help him achieve his goal of bringing the disparate parts of the University closer together. Rudenstine himself spent more than a decade as provost of Princeton University before stepping down...
...term Big Bang has become part of the standard scientific vocabulary, but it was first coined in the 1940s as a putdown. The idea that the universe actually had a beginning seemed just plain wacky -- especially since there was almost no evidence at the time to support it. Yet by the end of the 1960s, virtually all astrophysicists were convinced that the cosmos was born in a single massive explosion, and doubters were left out on the fringe...
...failure is almost as frightening as the prospect of Saddam's bomb. After Israeli jets destroyed Iraq's Osirak research reactor in 1981, Baghdad embarked headlong on a secret enrichment program that relied on an old-fashioned method called electromagnetic isotope separation. Used by Manhattan Project scientists in the 1940s, the technology is considered so obsolete that it is discussed openly in scientific literature and can be built from relatively common electrical components. Though time consuming and unreliable, it nonetheless fooled American intelligence officials, who scoured the Iraqi desert with satellites for signs of more modern enrichment plants. Without...
...members are black, Hispanic, Asian or of Middle Eastern descent. Admission procedures are as Old Guard as at any all-white club: an applicant must be sponsored by six members who have known him or her for three years. Says Masse: "We admitted our first black member in the 1940s. We're known as nondiscriminatory...