Word: cal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...penetrated their official masks of smiles and graciousness: no one knew the Duchess' thoughts as she whirled through the streets she had not seen for years, looking for vanished landmarks; or the Duke's as he entered the White House where "Silent Cal" Coolidge once volubly tried to relieve his shyness; or whether he remembered the Library of Congress, where once, with an injured arm, he shook hands for hours with thousands of people until, the pain becoming unbearable, he quietly excused himself, went behind a screen and fainted. Then he had been the coming King-Emperor, toasted...
...other six: Dr. Vannevar Bush, chairman-Dean Richard Chace Tolman of Cal tech's Graduate School; Commissioner of Patents Conway Peyton Coe; M.I.T.'s President Karl Taylor Compton; Dr. James Bryant Conant; Dr. Frank Baldwin Jewett, president of the National Academy of Sciences and chairman of the board of Bell Telephone Laboratories...
...cause of the amusing state of affairs is simple enough. Any undergraduate body needs an enemy not on the faculty. But Cal Tech is too far away, and Northeastern just doesn't rate. However, the logical selectee had been busy with a New Haven acquaintance for 157 years when Tech was born, and has never found time to acknowledge the declaration of war. Nevertheless Tech has been able to derive a lot of fun from the imaginary hostilities, and their crew race with Harvard (such as it is) remains the Big Athletic Event of the year. No one wants...
...days ago a strike called by the C.I.O. United Automobile Workers' Aircraft Division union closed the large Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant at Downey, Cal. Cause of the strike was the refusal of the Vultee Co. to grant wage increases to approximately 3000 men whose basic wage was 50 cents an hour. The union claimed that $20 a week was not enough for a man to support a family decently, and asked that the sunken wage floor in the Vultee plant be raised to 75 cents an hour. With $84,000,000 in profitable foreign and domestic orders on its books...
...Miss 6 Navy 14 Yale 13 Princeton 20 Rutgers 7 Penn 20 Michigan 19 Cornell 7 Ohio State 0 Brown 6 Holy Cross 0 Washington 19 California 6 Purdue 14 Wisconsin 6 Texas 20 Rice 19 Notre Dame 14 Illinois 0 Columbia 33 Syracuse 6 Stanford 7 Southern Cal 6 Wake Forest 12 Duke 7 Georgia Tech 12 Auburn 0 Northwestern 14 Indiana 12 Vanderbilt 13 LSU 10 Michigan State 7 Santa Clara 0 North Carolina 10 Tulane...