Word: chemists
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When Conant, a chemist, was named president, one member of the University community reportedly approached him and said, "Mr. Conant, I'm so disappointed--I thought Harvard chose scholars for its president...
...word a number of people use to describe Knowles is "smoothie," a trait born partly of the 18 year old English chemist's Oxford education...
Westheimer, like other Harvard scientists, says Knowles has also distinguished himself in his handling of departmental affairs, especially in bringing MIT chemist George M. Whitesides and Cal Tech's David A. Evans to Harvard...
...FRENCH REVOLUTION is a subject whose innumerable contradictory messages ultimately overwhelm one another. Like the chemical elements in the hands of a skilled chemist, events of the years 1789-1801 can be combined in different ways to create wholly distinct products. A modern day radical could discern in the fall of Maximillien Robespierre the lesson that only unwavering idealism and relentless persecution of reaction can sustain a revolution; a moderate could claim that only the tempering of justice with mercy can save a regime from overthrow...
...under a despot or a monarch or a Politburo." Reporters noted that the wording was taken almost verbatim from an old speech by, of all people, Mondale's mentor, Hubert Humphrey, but the crowd was thrilled. Face flushed with ex- citement, Hollis Hill, a Birmingham chemist, exclaimed: "He appeals to everything-the American flag, apple...