Word: adams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nordhoff looked little better than the plant. A lifelong automan, he had risen to the top in General Motors' German subsidiary, Adam Opel, A.G., and bossed its big truck plant during the war. At war's end, he had lost his job, his money and most of his belongings. Gaunt and hungry, Nordhoff scraped along for two years on handouts from friends; because he had been a top executive, he was forbidden to work in the U.S. zone at anything except manual labor-and even such jobs were not to be had. But the British asked...
Aggressive Columbia snapped a three meet streak by virtue of a last second takedown in the last period of Dick Adam's 130-pound match. Had the team beaten the Lions from Morningside Heights, Yale would loom less dangerous. As it is, Yale, which defeated Columbia, Army, Pennsylvania, springfield, and Princeton promises a rugged match...
...Adam K. Wilson (no relative of the management) was plant supervisor at the University Press when Eliot came there looking for a Harvard printer. An eminent craftsman, Wilson was fine choice, and remained chief printer for Harvard until his retirement in 1931. From the beginning of Wilson's stay until the late '90's the Printing Office grew in importance, doing all of the University's job printing, and finally printing the University Catalogue. It grew so rapidly that J. Bertram William '77 was appointed as publication agent to smooth over public relations between the Printing Office and faculty members...
...increasing number of scholarly manuscripts that professors felt should see print. So, on January 13, 1913, the Corporation voted to establish the Harvard University Press as a publishing outlet for the University. Lane was head of the organization that included the Printing Office--still the special province of Adam Wilson...
...assistant professors in Government, Arthur A. Maas and Adam B. Ulam, were appointed associate professors on the permanent faculty, Dean Bundy announced during the vacation. They will assume their new positions July...