Word: comptons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large number of sports events are scheduled for Saturday afternoon. The main contest is the Compton Cup regatta, to be held on the Charles, with crews from Harvard, Princeton, M.I.T., and Wisconsin. A baseball game with Navy, lacrosse against Williams, and a tennis match with Dartmouth are also scheduled...
Later Physicist Arthur Compton telephoned President James Conant of Harvard, who was chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, and gave lim a prearranged code message. Said Compton: "The Italian navigator has reached the New World...
...Gutter. In Compton, Calif., James A. Beasley was fined $100 for reckless flying, despite his explanation that "I was flying too low because my wife wanted to point out the bowling alley where she bowled...
...when President Truman called on him to be head of the National Research Development Board of the Military Establishment, Karl Compton retired as head of M.I.T. On the day the news broke, scores of students stopped him on campus to shake his hand ("It's nice.'' said he, "but they don't know how it hurts"). In 1949, on doctor's orders, he was forced to resign from the nation's top scientific post. He went back to M.I.T. as chairman of the corporation. "It is as true today," he once told a graduating...
Died. Dr. Karl Taylor Compton, 66, onetime (1930-48) president of M.I.T. and head (1948-49) of the National Research Development Board of the Military Establishment; of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see EDUCATION...