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...eight members, Major General Richard Curtis Moore and Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen* coordinate its work with projects of Army and Navy technicians. But the Committee is free to pluck suggestions from anywhere-from scientists, amateur tinkerers, soldiers in the ranks-and, if an idea looks good, instantly assign the best U.S. scientists to explore it. Unlike the Army and Navy specialists, who cannot stick their necks out, NDRC is willing, in the spirit of all academic and industrial science, to begin four experiments with cheerful confidence that three will be flops...
Because of the uncertain aspects of the situation, College authorities cannot definitely assign jobs, but the preliminary work must be finished by the end of the school year...
...while I have an ounce of energy. . . ." He said that if he could not attend, his mother could take his place. If anything happened to her, he said, the humblest countryman in the island could step forward and carry on the task. But Muñoz Marin could not assign to anybody else the promise that his followers found in him while he was warning them to have no faith in the promises of politicians, including himself...
...soon as the fortunate ten have been elected to the Smoker and Jubilee committees by their classmates, the Union Committee will assign them positions. Chairmen are empowered to appoint extra men to their committees under the rulings adopted last year when '43 voted down annual elections of officers...
...Christianity that he "was compelled to devote precious years to the investigation of the New Testament for myself." Historian Olmstead's findings made most of his Bib Lit colleagues sputter. They think the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke) give the truest picture of Christ's life, assign a much later date to St. John's Gospel. Dr. Olmstead said roundly that it was the earliest, written only a few years after the Crucifixion, and by far the most reliable of the four. It is the only one with a coherent chronology, he declared, and the only...