Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Albert Bush-Brown, a member of the Society of Fellows, discussed the Center during his part of a forum on "Problems of College Architecture." Other speakers at the forum were John Coolidge '35, director of Fogg Museum, and Professor Kenneth Conant '15 who discussed the history of Harvard's architecture...
...defense of the Graduate Center's modern design, Bush-Brown said, is that it carries out President Conant's educational theories. Conant advocates learning from experience, not books. Graduate students' rooms contain so little book space that the students are forced to resort to experience as their teacher. Also, students' rooms are too small to use for anything but studying, so they have to move out for social activities...
Oregon Style. Trumpeting into the legislature's ear is no novelty for the Statesman. It has been doing it for exactly 100 years, as Salem's top citizens reminded Charlie Sprague at a special anniversary luncheon last week. In 1851, first Editor Asahel Bush wanted the territorial capital moved from Oregon City to Salem, characterized those who disagreed as "Lickspittles and toadies of official whiggery." Such Statesman invective soon became known as the "Oregon style" of journalism. Wrote Bush, about his bitter opponent, the Portland Oregonian: "There is not a brothel in the land that would not have...
Many witnesses urged that the new rainmaking techniques be used on a nationwide scale, with generous federal support. Most impressive was Dr. Vannevar Bush, former head of the wartime Office of Research and Development. Scientific rainmaking, said Bush, is "a very early art ... but I have become convinced that it is possible under the proper circumstances to make rain." Bush urged federal action, but he had one reservation: the U.S. Weather Bureau, which is still skeptical about rainmaking, should...
...Waterman got his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1916, taught physics off & on at Yale until 1942, joined the Office of Scientific Research and Development (the overall agency headed by Vannevar Bush that guided wartime research). In 1946 he shifted to ONR. As director of the National Science Foundation, he will work for a board of 24 prominent scientists headed by Harvard's President James Bryant Conant. Last fall Congress appropriated $225,000 to get the foundation going, may give it up to $15 million this year to encourage basic research throughout...