Word: core
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many faculty members, to the outstanding administrative jobs which Murdock did as Dean of the Faculty and Master of Leverett House (1931-41). "His senior common room was one of the most exciting places in the University. Out of this will come a superb administration and a fine core of people working in the administration...
Because of the present reduction of the department, it is not completely possible to compare it with similar faculties in other institutions, yet the angling of the curriculum and the courses offered do invite such a comparison. If the present offerings are considered as Thompson expresses it, "a basic core curriculum for those wishing to concentrate," this becomes more feasible...
...material for other books lies squeezed in two large manuscript filled filing cabinets at one end of the room. This series, together with his project of publishing Averroes' commentaries on Aristotle in three languages (which should fill a hundred volumes when completed) along with many articles constitute the core of Wolfson's work...
...boil ever to symbolize the cool peak of disciplined independence which he regards as the acme of civilization. His deepest strength lies in what Critic Geoffrey Grigson has called the brilliantly energetic "word-welding" to be found in Lewis' poems. These tell in essence what is the core both of Wyndham Lewis and the century in which he lives...
...Caltech's Seismological Laboratory, such researchers as Hugo Benioff and Beno Gutenberg have explored the crust and core of the earth, and found out as much as any men alive about the nature of seismic waves, earthquakes, aftershock. Physicist C.C. Lauritsen produced the first 1,000,000-volt X-ray tube, and Carl Anderson won a Nobel Prize for discovering the positron. Meanwhile, Caltech biologists have been probing their own areas of the invisible. Geneticist Alfred H. Sturtevant described the linear order of genes; Calvin B. Bridges provided proof for the chromosome theory of heredity. In determining that genes...