Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A member of the class of 1916, she also received her doctor's degree from Radcliffe. Graduate study included a year studying international law at Yale University and a year at the University of Brussels as a fellow of the Commission for Relief in Belgium.
More & more physicists are coming to know the Institute as the home of an authentic contemporary hero of their trade: Dr. J. (for nothing) Robert Oppenheimer, who is president of the American Physical Society, chairman of the technical advisers to the Atomic Energy Commission, and one of the world'...
In 1920, Dean Burwell was a member of the American Red Cross Commission to West Russia.
At week's end the U.N.'s third truce in Palestine was being vigorously violated by both sides. The Jews stood accused by the U.N. Truce Commission of reopening hostilities in the Negeb and at Gaza. The Egyptians were fighting desperately to escape from their pockets. On the...
Conant gags on the phrase "higher education," with its undemocratic implication that anybody who doesn't go to a university or four-year college is "forever on a lower plane." To rescue the colleges and universities from the student who enrolls only because of this social blackmail, Conant favors...