Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...financially or administratively, the Institute for Advanced Studies offers an opportunity for "post-postgraduate" work to a select group of 30-odd top U. S. scholars. These men freely elect their mentors from a faculty of 16 in an environment stripped of lectures, examinations degrees. Figures such as Albert Einstein lend the stature of their thought. But "the most important thing that can come out of the Institute," wrote then director Frank Aydelotte in 1943, "is not the absolute contribution of an Einstein, great as it may be, so much as the general flow of attitudes toward study and research...
...Tulle, France, a shocked judge fined Albert Fayet 800 francs for throwing his wife out into the street naked -and fined Mme. Fayet 1,000 francs for appearing naked in public...
...flamadiddles were justified. In the November anniversary number, Editor Edward A. ("Ted") Weeks had rounded up: Albert Einstein on atomic-energy control (as told to Raymond Swing); war letters of General George S. Patton Jr.; unpublished love letters of Mark Twain; excerpts from the notebooks of Henry James; part of a new novel by John P. Marquand; articles by George Bernard Shaw, Budd Schulberg, Sumner Welles, Sir Richard Livingstone.* To show off these prizes to better advantage, the Atlantic had freshened up its format, run its first four-color cover and had its type face lifted by topnotch Typographer...
...Albert Wolf, booted a goal in from his left wing position in 2:30 of the first overtime period to save the Crimson Yardlings' unbeaten record and beat Andover by a 2 to 1 score. Jim Gabler, Freshman center-half and captain, scored the first goal of the game but Andover evened the game in 8:30 of the third period...
...Albert E. Marre 1L, member of the Screen Writers Guild, sighs wearily when asked whether Hollywood is a nest of Communists, as the House Un-American Affairs Committee proclaims. "You're nobody in Hollywood unless you have money," he says with a touch of cynicism, "and if you have money you're not a Communist...