Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James B. Conant Prize for scientific essays was given to Albert W. Alschuler '62 for his paper, "The Social Background of Scientific Secrecy." Clement Herschel prizes were granted to Peter Watermeyer IG, and to Merrill S. Hohman...
Robinson walked into M.I.T.'s offices and suggested that Griswold and the trustees needed a research staff to back up their own investment judgment. He had the right background. True, he had been born in Seattle, but only by a quirk of fate (his engineer father had taken his family there while working on a construction job). He was indisputably a Boston product. He had gone to Noble & Greenough and Harvard (1920), taken a dutiful fling at engineering, gone back to Harvard Business School to study finance, put in his time in a Boston investment banking house. The trustees...
Wolfson's current endeavors are part of the same work he has been doing for over twenty years--fulfillment of the grand design of "working out more fully the background of the problems dealt with in Spinoza's philosophy." In 1937 he began doing research for a 12-volume project entitled The Structure and Growth of Philosophic Systems from Plato to Spinoza...
...situations. Says stocky. English-born Bishop "Donald the Arctic" Marsh, 55. whose diocese covers more than 2,750,000 square miles and who has spent 33 years there: "Living in a primitive society, the Eskimo had many of the same problems as the Biblical characters. To him, the moral background was perfectly understandable. A great deal of the conception of the Gospel was already there. Being a realist, he tried to put Christianity into practice, and he did it successfully...
...Peabody chair: "We have two kinds of exhibits in the Museum. Since we realize that much of our wonderful collection is of general interest, we show the most flashy material in the large halls, where our explanations are simple and directed to the layman who just wants a background at the level of Anthropology 1. The other type of exhibit is the highly specialized one, the sort of showing that only a very careful general observer could understand. These are designed as study aids for graduate courses and fill the smaller rooms. Their highly technical explanations of what the public...