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After graduating from Harvard in 1937 with a cum laude Bacehlor of Science degree, Cohen stepped along the usual educational trail with a brief detour to the research department of Carnegie Institute in Washington. The war interrupted his work and called him back to Harvard to instruct physics in the accelerated Army and Navy programs. Finding time to do the necessary work for his doctoral degree, he received an Assistant Professorship in 1947. Last year he advanced to an Associate Professor...
...will be in a coalition with Magsaysay's Nacionalistas, and if the coalition wins, will share in the spoils (presumably Romulo would be reappointed Ambassador to the U.S.). Said Romulo: "They say a wise captain doesn't take his ship through a storm, but makes a detour. I am making a detour...
This idea would not necessarily have to detour the more technical Natural Science papers. For, as thesis writers in science discover nothing is too technical to be written well. But if the topic of the paper is too obscure for the Ahf section man to perceive, he might trade it with another man in the field (some teach both types of courses), or work jointly with the section man of the other course. The two could even exchange the knowledge of their fields in the margin of the paper...
...soon this pursuit of happiness ran into a detour. Oleo sales boomed and butter prices melted. Soaring imports of dried dairy products displaced millions of quarts of U.S. milk from ice cream and other products, and diverted them into butter. As butter prices kept dropping, the Agriculture Department had to buy more. In December alone, it paid $12 million for 15 million Ibs. of butter, cheddar cheese and dried milk. Some days purchases ran as high as 2,000,000 Ibs., all paid for by U.S. taxpayers (whose happiness had not been part of the deal...
...Tokyo, on a concert tour, Metropolitan Opera Soprano Helen Traubel announced that she would detour to Korea to sing Christmas carols to the troops...