Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recognized on the Amherst campus for his intellectual prowess, Hughes used to conduct discussions before a sizeable body of students in his room freshman year the night before history quizzes. Favorite pupil of popular, brilliant Professor Laurence B. Packard, head of Amherst's history department, under the inspiration of this man he has decided to take up the study of history as his life work. His brother is planning to take up architecture, leaving the field of law unexplored by this third generation of a family of great lawyers...
...suit against the six Senatorial members of the Investigating Committee and the seven members of the Federal Communications Commission charging them with conspiracy to seize his telegrams illegally. Said his petition: "No agency of the Government has the power to go on a fishing expedition into matters concerning the conduct of the business of the Press...
...excitedly about the bold "Communist" student plot against the life of conservative, close-mouthed Chancellor Flint, up stepped a timid undergraduate in the University's School of Architecture to name himself and 25 fellow-students as senders of the "bomb." Haled into court to face charges of disorderly conduct, the 25 students sheepishly explained that they had merely wanted to have some fun, pointed out that the "bomb" was harmless. The white powder: sugar. Federal authorities scratched their heads, admitted that no statute forbids the mailing of junk, however fearfully disguised. To Chancellor Flint, who was vacationing with...
...daughter was a late-flowering hyacinth. Her appearance on a polo pony in men's riding breeches caused Boston women's clubs to raise their eyebrows long before the War, but it was not until a California Mothers' Club passed a resolution against her conduct in 1912 that she really became a national celebrity. Delighted, Eleonora Sears adopted shocking costumes for swimming, sailing, figure-skating and tennis. Before that, she had been up in an airplane with Grahame White (1910), paid a $25 fine for driving without a license and driven a four-in-hand coach down...
...British Industries Fair just outside London last week, His Majesty assumed the status of the world's first Salesman Sovereign. His vigorous efforts so to conduct himself as King that he would sell, sell and SELL chanced to benefit chiefly the following British firms which incurred the attention of His Majesty...