Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another of Samborski's wizardries may shift Bob Carison over to the left garden from the position in the sunfield in the last till. Crawford "Call-me-Carl" Hurbbell will take over the stand in right unless he is called on to help out on the mound. Bill Harford, who has been hitting with increasing regularity, will round out the Crimson gardens...
Dysentery & Loneliness. On hand for last week's flag-lowering was TIME Editor Carl Solberg, who cabled a report of wartime life in the security-hushed Galápagos...
Chicago Round Table (Sun. 1:30 p.m., NBC). "What Progress in Cancer Research?" Speakers: Dr. Carl Moore, professor of zoology, University of Chicago; Dr. Charles Huggins, professor of surgery, U. of C.; Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads, director of Memorial Hospital for Treatment of Cancer, New York City...
Frederick Jackson Turner, Wisconsin's famed historian of the western frontier (described by Historian Carl Becker): "The lecture itself, if that is the word for it, seemed never 'prepared.' [It] was just informal, intimately conversational talk, always serious without ever being solemn; enlivened with humor . . . yet never falling to the level of the sad professorial joke. . . . No, lecture isn't the word . . . no musty air of academic infallibility clouding the room, no laying down of the law and gospel according to Turner; but . . . novel ideas carelessly thrown out with more questions asked than were answered, more...
This week the Army & Navy announced that they had set up a joint scientific research committee to coordinate their research. Its chairman: Vannevar Bush. Other members are Generals Jacob Devers and Carl Spaatz, Assistant Navy Secretary W. John Kenny, Admiral DeWitt Ramsey...