Word: carolinians
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...both are respected researchers in the field of electrochemistry, the study of how chemical reactions behave in the presence of an electric field. In retrospect, though, their backgrounds were quirky enough to suggest that almost anything was possible. Pons, in particular, had an unorthodox professional history. A native North Carolinian, Pons, 46, dropped out of graduate school at the University of Michigan in 1967, just a few months shy of getting a Ph.D. in chemistry. "Jobs for Ph.D. chemists were paying $3,500 a year at the time," he explains. "My daddy offered me $20,000." He joined the family...
This time she's voting for Dukakis. And Eddinger is one Carolinian who thinks its time for the party to reach out to Jackson and Black voters. "If [Dukakis] has any sense he'll give [Jackson] some kind of position" in his cabinet, she says...
Dole is also very strong going into the South. With the benefits of his wife Elizabeth's North Carolinian background and his popularity among farmers, Dole has a basis for muscling voter support...
Katherine L. Strobos '91 said that she caught a cold worrying about whether she got into a lotteried class. Quincy House residents blame one South Carolinian who hates the Northern climate. They all seem to agree that the common cold, with many symptoms and few cures, is spreading rapidly through the campus...
David Herbert Donald, a Harvard historian, attempts to revise that judgment by presenting an oversize, extravagantly gifted North Carolinian who tried bold Joycean experiments in stream of consciousness and attempted to rescue American writing from the expatriate Lost Generation in Europe. According to legend, Wolfe was saved from drowning in his own verbiage by Editor Maxwell Perkins, mentor of Fitzgerald and Hemingway. According to the biographer, Perkins and his colleagues distorted Wolfe's intentions and eviscerated his posthumous works beyond recognition...