Word: conways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Range & Quiet. Bypass engines are hard to design, and few of them have been built. Probably the leading model is the British Rolls-Royce Conway, which has been ordered for the Vickers 1000 airliner. Critics say that it does not bypass enough air to yield full efficiency, but Rolls-Royce claims that it will give top range and safety to airplanes flying above the practical speeds of turboprops...
Three new members have been appointed to the Committee on Educational Policy, effective July 1. Reuben A. Brower, professor of English, and Charles S. Singleton, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, will serve five-year terms, while John J. Conway, assistant professor of History, will serve for one year...
Died. Hannes Schneider, 64, Austrian-born, internationally famed skimeister regarded as "the father of modern skiing" for his development of the "Arlberg Method" of crouching and swinging instead of standing erect on the downhill run; of a heart ailment; in North Conway, N.H. Schneider taught kings, princes and American millionaires at his ski school at St. Anton am Arlberg, Austria, came to North Conway to found a school in 1939 after a brief imprisonment by the Nazis...
...History courses fall in American History, but range from Russia to Canada in subject matter. History 158, History of Russian Imperial Policy, will be given by Richard E. Pipes, Research Associate in the Russian Research Center, and will cover both Czarist and Soviet imperialism. John J. Conway, assistant professor of History, will teach History 173, History of Canada from...
...board added a sordid postscript to the saga of the Platt children (of Irish-Indian descent), who were barred from school in Mt. Dora because Sheriff Willis McCall arbitrarily decided that they are Negroes (TIME, Dec. 13, 1954 et seq.). By unanimous vote, the board fired Math Teacher Don Conway for giving his blessings to a high-school student petition urging that the Platt children be allowed to stay. Conway's only comment: "If giving the kids my moral support in what I consider a Christian act is guilt, then I guess I'm guilty...