Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bush Fighters. As the woodsman became bolder, his sorties changed from mere reconnaissance missions to raids in force. The commando warfare was brand-new to the British and confounding to the French. A Rogers raid against Ticonderoga in December 1757 was typical of his methods. In weather that would have clogged ordinary troop movements, Rogers led 150 men through the untracked forest, ranged them about the fort, and, when the French refused to stir outside, slaughtered their cattle and burned their wood supplies, leaving a receipt for what he had destroyed...
...addition, Doctorates of Letters were conferred on J.N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, and Pieter Geyl, professor of Modern History at the University of Utrecht...
...Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature and second speaker of the day, decried the sudden rush for scientific knowledge and the neglect of the arts...
...Scientific knowledge and technology are necessary for a liberal education," Bush said, "but they may swallow every-thing also up. Men of the space age must remember the humanities ... the chief agent of the resistance to conformity...
...School Alumni Association and Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research will hold their annual joint luncheon today at Harkness Quadrangle. Speakers will be Francis H. Russell, U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand, and J.N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature...