Word: clinton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clinton Joseph Davisson (1937), thin, soft-spoken electrophysicist at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York, who first showed (complementing Compton) that electrons are not purely particles but have properties of very short waves...
This plan was first proposed in Washington last summer by a committee (set up by the Manpower Commission) under able young President W. H. Cowley of Hamilton College (Clinton, N.Y.). The Army quickly smacked it down. Now that the Army has what it wants (teenage draft, college work for soldiers), small colleges hope to get what they-and industry-need...
...boisterous near-riot of San Quentin's 4,000-odd convicts one somber Sunday afternoon almost twelve months ago made able Warden Clinton Truman Duffy grin with pride. Reason: the Japs had just attacked Pearl Harbor; the convicts, swarming around him in the "Big Yard," were patriotically clamoring for immediate revenge...
...strike Bob Enos made some new friendships. One was with tall, gaunt Clinton S. Golden, onetime railroad fireman, then regional director for the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, and the labor leader who has worked most faithfully and intelligently to bring U.S. labor and U.S. management into partnership...
...rhythm team-including a back named Luck and two youngsters who, in their first season of varsity football, have given Sinkwich a run for Southern headlines. One is eagle-eyed Sophomore Eddie Prokop, a spectacular passer who, like Sinkwich, was lured from Ohio. The other is a native Atlantan: Clinton Dillard Castleberry Jr., who is already being dubbed the Red Earth's Red Grange. His flashy running and ability to pass the ammunition have contributed largely to the Engineers' big-time renaissance. So far this season. Georgia Tech has blasted six opponents in a row-including Notre Dame...