Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Insistence that pure science must remain free from control by "practical" considerations was voiced by J. Robert' Oppenheimer '26, director of the Institute for Advanced Study, as he, President Conant, and Vannevar Bush, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, addressed a Harvard Club of Boston hanquet last night celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Lawrence Scientific School...
...Bush stressed the growth of engineering as a profession, and looked forward to the day when a newly born profession of management could league with engineering to "so manage prosperity as to make it conducive to the health of the nation...
...Vannevar Bush, director of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, and J. Robert Oppenheimer '26, director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, will give guest speeches at the banquet, while President Conant will outline the development of science since the creation of the Lawrence Scientific School spurred laboratory research and teaching in the United States...
...knobby brown man shuffled weakly down the red sandstone pathway leading from Birla House to the vine-covered pergola which served as his prayer-meeting place. Slowly he climbed the three steps leading to the pavilion. A stocky young man in grey slacks, a blue pullover and khaki bush jacket stepped forward and knelt at Gandhi's feet. He was Nathu Ram Vinayak Godse, editor of the extremist newspaper Hindu Rashtra, which had denounced Gandhi as an appeaser of Moslems. "You are late today for the prayer," said the murderer. "Yes, I am," said Gandhi...
...Bush Christmas. Australian children hound the life out of some horse thieves in an engagingly simple adventure story (TIME...