Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another phase of the centenary celebration took place yesterday afternoon when engineering Alumni and members of the University Visiting Committee heard Faculty members of the Graduate School of Engineering present technical papers on electricity, aerodynamics, civil engineering, and sewage disposal...
Reinhold Ruedenberg, professor of Electrical Engineering, Karl Terzaghi, professor of the Practice of Civil Engineering, Gustav Kuerti, assistant professor of Aerodynamics, and Daniel Okun, teaching fellow in Sanitary Engineering, will address the meeting...
...camp before Christmas, he stole Brundage's thunder and let his skaters know that they were to make up the American Olympic team. Brundage, his presidential pride raging, revoked his previous backing of the A.H.A., and used his prerogative to back the A.A.U. The initial skirmish of the Olympic civil...
This greater tale, as you might easily suppose, is the growth of America, particularly as viewed from a country in the midwest. The Civil War here marks the maturing of the man and of the country, and that is only the most generalized cross-reference between plot and history. Every major event in the hero's life occurs, symbolically enough, on a Great Day in American History--Johnny Shawnessy is married (to a girl from the South) on the day John Brown is hanged; his son is born on the first day of the War; his wife goes mad simultaneously...
...This generous offer is appreciated," Professor Shapley said, "but of course I could not consider anything of the sort." The leading astronomer, who is honorary chairman of the Massachusetts PCA, added that such a candidacy would "obstruct whatever effectiveness I may have in promoting civil liberties and progressive legislation...