Word: dirks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After hearing Professor Dirk J. Stuick, of M.I.T. explain the relation of Marxism to science, the John Reed Society broke wide open just as compromise was in sight on allowing non-Marxist talks to be heard...
...Avenue more than made up for it. Dedicated "to the peoples of Spain and China," this show was devoted almost exclusively to excoriations in paint of the contemporary conquerors and their technique. Most were better as expressions of hot feeling than as paintings. A few, by Max Weber, Nathanial Dirk, Arnold Blanch, Victor Candell, William Cropper, Mervin Jules, were excellent as both. None equaled a set of etchings by Picasso called Dreams and Lies of Franco, caricaturing El Caudillo as an inhuman, hairy nightmare. Favorite painting of a group of Amalgamated Clothing Workers who showed up at the opening...
...other departments will include Burton L. Cushing, head of the science department, East Boston High School, who will lecture at the Graduate School of Education on the teaching of physics; Dr. Arthur F. Jenness, associate Professor of Psychology, University of Nebraska, who will instruct in Social Psychology; and Dr. Dirk J. Struik, associate professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who will instruct in differential geometry...
Last January Dirk de Jonge was released by the Supreme Court from a sentence under Oregon's Criminal Syndicalism Law. Several weeks ago three Mississippi negroes were granted new trials on the grounds that their confessions had been wrung from them by torture. The decision on the Scottsboro case is well known. No one doubts the good job done by the Court in supporting civil liberties, but appreciation of this part of their work has frequently been lost in a welter of words on the political, personal and economic bias of the Court. It seems that in the heat...
...Dirk J. Struik, associate professor of Mathematics at M.I.T., heads a list of the latest 18 men to be drawn into Harvard's teaching and research mill...