Word: alford
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Building Belief. Depression is most likely to afflict the wives of servicemen if they think that their husband's absence is pointless. Navy Rear Admiral John M. Alford, a personnel expert who conducted a recent one-year survey of Navy life, says that when the tone of a husband's letters about his work changes from eagerness to boredom, wives swing from resolution to discouragement. So far, no systematic study has been made on the effects of wifely missives. New Haven Psychiatrist Houston Macintosh found that the spouses of Air Force men, virtually all of whom volunteer...
Demos, who taught at Harvard from 1919 to 1962, was Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Policy, emeritus. For many years, he taught a lower-level course in "Philosophy from Plato to William James." He was editor of "Complete Works of Plato" in 1936, and author of "The Philosophy of Plato...
Born at Smyrna, Asia Minor, Demos spent his early years in Constantinople, and earned an A.B. degree in 1910 from Anatolia College in Marsovan. He came to the United States in 1913, studied at Harvard where he earned a Ph.D., and joined the Harvard faculty in 1916. He became Alford Professor...
...feel pangs of Protestant responsibility brought on by the recent abdication of the Londoners. A group of Bostonians in 1787 established the present foundation to take up the work dropped by the London Society. A typical contributor to the new Society for Propagating the Gospel was one Colonel Alford, who, according to the executor of his will, "was desireous the Aborigines should be both civilized and christianized; that the Gospel should be sent into the dark, benighted parts of the land...
Roderick Firth, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, attacked U.S. involvement in Vietnam before an audience of 175 students and Faculty members in Memorial Church yesterday...