Word: divisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Graduate School of Engineering will case to exist as a separate division of the University if the Corporation passes an already written resolution at its full board meeting early in March.
Athens was already nervous because of a renewed flurry of Communist sabotage. Some unguarded telephone stations had been blown up, and Communist pamphlets were attacking the new government, U.S. aid, and-most venomously-General Van Fleet, who was referred to as "Murderer Van Flit." Towering, husky Van Fleet, who led...
In its first meeting, the council heard from Physicist Harry C. Kelly, acting chief of SCAP's scientific technical division. Said Kelly: "We here share the responsibility of reintroducing Japanese science to the rest of the world . . . We have learned to recognize only the external aspects of Japanese culture...
Atomic energy has been produced in sizable quantities ever since 1942, but so far, not a single kilowatt has been put to practical, peacetime use. The Atomic Energy Commission, smarting from criticism, decided last summer to set up a special "Reactor Development Division" to start the reactors reacting.
Next week, Dr. Lawrence Hafstad, 44, the division's first chief, will begin his enormous task of pacifying the atom. Born in Minneapolis of Norwegian parents, he worked his way through the University of Minnesota as a telephone maintenance man. In April 1939, young Dr. Hafstad got in on...