Word: beta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...signed. None saw combat, but lewisite had earned a sinister name-Dew of Death-because a few drops on a man's skin were sufficient to kill. Heavier and more persistent than mustard gas, lewisite is an arsenic compound which smells like geraniums, bears the scientific name of beta-chlorvinyldichlorarsine. While mustard causes many casualties but few deaths, lewisite was expected to cause a greater proportion of deaths...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt will be initiated into the Radcliffe Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa preceding the annual dinner there on December 11, it was announced Saturday...
Miss Mary F. Williams, president of Phi Beta Kappa, will preside at the initiation and the dinner. President Ada L. Comstock of Radcliffe will represent the college, while Reginald H. Phelps '80, assistant dean of Harvard College and acting secretary of the Harvard PBK will represent the University...
...course is to be open to 500 college men who have had either some training in the Japanese language, or, failing that, a Phi Beta Kappa college standing. The school, whose students will receive Navy pay ranging from $125 to $142, will be established at Boulder, Colorado, on or about January...
...very large college, W & M is now up to about 1500 students, both men and sweater girls. But it has a record of more distinguished graduates than almost any other college, and is the home of such features of American academic life as the honor system, electives, and Phi Beta Kappa, which was founded there...