Word: conway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marches for What? Though he writes with a calm reserve, Author Ward manages to get in some sharp verdicts. He doubts that the "Conway Cabal"* against Washington existed at all, he sharply criticizes both sides for cruelty in the Indian campaigns, and he declares the aborted Canadian campaign which Lafayette was supposed to lead in 1778 "one of the maddest of all mad projects...
Background: Born at Randolph, Tenn. on July 28, 1893, the son of a timber contractor. His mother died when he was young, and he spent most of his early years on his grandfather's farm in western Tennessee. Educated at the University of Arkansas and Hendrix College in Conway, Ark. (B.A. 1918). Served overseas in World War I as an Army Medical Corpsman. After studying in Scotland at the University of Aberdeen, received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Southern Methodist University in 1921, later got his first D.D. (honoris causa) at Hendrix...
Whether in first aid or in climbing, ability is always vital. For instance, four men had to rush down 1000 ft. White Horse Ledge last weekend to assist in carrying to North Conway a hunter who had been shot...
...fast enough to get good propulsive efficiency, but bombers and transports (up to 600 m.p.h.) do not. Such craft will fly more efficiently with an engine whose gases shoot out of the tailpipe more slowly. Rolls-Royce Ltd. of Britain is testing such an engine, which it calls the Conway, after a river in Wales. Rolls will not give details of its construction, except that it uses the "bypass" principle...
SECTION MEN: Conway, head section man of Social Sciences 2 before he began teaching this course, was received with enthusiasm. '55 described him as undogmatic, taking a great deal of interest in the student; all thought that he "knew his stuff." Another section man from Social Sciences 2, Baer, was praised as sympathetic, fair, very competent, interested in his students. A Social Sciences 1 man, Graubard, was an "extremely capable teacher," interested both in the course and in the student, and quite helpful in explaining the more difficult material. Malia was described as competent, though more so in the spring...