Word: comptons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...children looked all right: Dr. Kanner called them "well-formed, well-developed, rather slender, and attractive." Many were bright, too. A two-year-old boy could identify all the pictures in Compton's Encyclopedia; a three-year-old boy could name all the Presidents and Vice Presidents of the U.S., recite 37 nursery rhymes, rattle off 25 questions & answers in the Presbyterian catechism...
Thursday afternoon the Crimson posed on the Newell Boat House float with coxswain Sam Mantel clutching the gold-encrusted Compton Cup which it defends today. Whether posing with this trophy before the race is symptomatic of sublime confidence or resignation to defeat is a matter for speculation...
Secondly, Mr. Bracken told us how we should be glad to have a Thomas committee which "protects our civil liberties." I assume he was speaking of the recent smear of Karl T. Compton before they presented any valid evidence, and then denied him the opportunity to appear in his own defense. I think that well-informed Mr. Bracken would call that "100% Americanism in action." Stewart D. Kranz...
...lives strenuously at the seminary with his British-born wife, the former Ursula Keppel-Compton, and their two children, Christopher, 13, and Elizabeth, 9. Mrs. Niebuhr, a theologian in her own right, was the first woman to win a First in theology at Oxford. She has lectured on religion at Barnard College for six years. In summer, the Niebuhrs rusticate at Heath, Mass., near the Vermont line. There Niebuhr writes and rests, after his fashion, from the nervous pace at which he drives himself...
...other side of the issue, Fackenthal, acting president of Columbia University, endorsed the whole integrated program for national security, including military training. The Truman Advisory Committee on University Military Training was headed by MIT President Karl Compton...