Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fuels of the space and atom age get more powerful, they also get harder to handle. Last week General Bernard Schriever, new chief of the Air Forces Research and Development Command, announced that liquid hydrogen, until recently hardly more than a laboratory curiosity, is being produced in considerable quantities as a rocket fuel. Liquid hydrogen is tricky stuff; it boils at minus 423° F., only about 37° above absolute zero. If it is not stored in elaborately insulated containers, it quickly turns to hydrogen gas, and a small amount of the gas makes a dangerous explosive mixture with...
Among Faculty members who have attended the dinners are Dean Bundy and Professors John M. Bullitt, Charles R. Cherington, I. Bernard Cohen, Raphael Demos, Oscar Handlin, Clyde K. M. Kluckhohn, Harry T. Levin, Henry A. Murray, Leonard K. Nash, David Riesman, and Samuel A. Stouffer...
Commenting on Monro's call for more free time for freshmen, I. Bernard Cohen '37, professor of the History of Science, advocated a reading period for freshmen, not just for upperclassmen. The students in my course are very mature, he said, and "I'd like to be able to turn them loose...
Ambitious as such fledgling U.S. enterprises are, they barely hold a candle to the soaring prices now being fetched in Paris. An edition of 197 copies of Cyrano de Bergerac's Voyages Fantastiques, illustrated by Bernard Buffet, recently sold out within 48 hours at prices up to $15,500. More ambitious yet was Don Quichotte illustrated by Salvador Dali with "divine splashes" from an ink-filled snail shell. For the regular edition, Publisher Joseph Foret set the price at a mere $300 a copy. But one copy, billed as "the most expensive book in the world," was tagged...
WASHINGTON, May 4--Former House investigator Baron I. Shacklette said today an attempt was made to "bug" his hotel room the same week last summer that he was eavesdropping by hidden microphone on Bernard Goldfine...