Word: conway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...These young men are the finest, the best trained, the ablest on their feet, that it has been our pleasure to listen to," declared Justice Whittaker, after hearing Charles C. Collins, Jr. and Thomas A. Skornia. Their opponents in the Magruder Club were Thomas G. Conway and John M. Wisdom...
Engineers have long known that the turbofan is the most efficient engine for subsonic aircraft. Rolls-Royce pioneered turbofan development, turned out a prototype of its famed Conway by-pass engine in 1950. But U.S. enginemakers, under pressure from the military to produce regular jet engines that are more efficient at supersonic speeds, lagged behind...
...Tower panel with 75-watt lighting will be compared with another using 150-watt bulbs "to see whether the effect is any different," according to John J. Conway, Master of Leverett House...
...Conway denied a report by a local radio station that the 150-watt bulbs were a fire hazard...
Assuming that Harvard students are intelligent enough to form their own conclusions, Conway attempts to make his exam questions "open-ended"--"Discuss Frederick the Great." This approach, he maintains, allows students to discuss their own ideas without restrictions, and shows them that the non-expert can hold valuable opinions...