Word: conventioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frank's bookshelves bulge with a special set of 64 volumes by authors with the same patronymic: Van Doren. Brother Carl, who died in 1950, started the set in 1911 with a scholarly biography of British Novelist and Poet Thomas Love Peacock. Five years later, while still a graduate...
Physicists look and act like ordinary men, but when they get together, many of the things they talk about approach the frontier of fantasy. Last week the American Physical Society, in convention in Manhattan, heard plenty of frontier talk. A few of the high-level matters discussed:
The Pru project, to be built on-a 31-acre site in Boston's Back Bay area near Copley Square, will transform a gritty industrial area into a modern metal-and-glass city-within-a-city. Much of it will be built over the train yards of the Boston...
Elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1937, he became its speaker in 1941, took an unsuccessful whirl for lieutenant governor in 1948, and four years later was chairman of the Connecticut Citizens for Eisenhower. Last year Len Hall put National Committeeman Alcorn in charge of arrangements for the...
The excitement started when Columbia University told about two experiments proving that the "parity law," one of the cornerstones of nuclear physics, is a man-made convention which does not bind nature except in special cases. According to the parity law, objects that are mirror images of each other must...