Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each was awarded a Doctor of Laws as were Robert F. Goheen, Princeton president-elect, Arthur L. Goodhart, Master of University College, Oxford, and Devereux C. Josephs '15, Chairman of the President's Committee on Education Beyond the High School...
...Doctor of Science went to Edwin H. Land '30, inventor of the Land camera, Jan H. Oort, Director of the Observatory of Leiden, and Robert B. Woodward, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry, known for synthesizing quinine and other substances...
...months before he died of Hodgkin's disease, at 33, Rumanian-born Pianist Dinu Lipatti played for the last time in public, at the 1950 International Festival in Besangon, France. To keep the date, he overrode his doctor's and his wife's pleas not to play, was fortified with drugs. Close to fainting at the keyboard, he had to omit the last brief selection on the program, Chopin's Waltz No. 2 in A Flat. Now, in a 2-LP Angel album, record buyers can listen to that last amazing recital and sample the artistry...
...English love a poisoner. When he is a doctor and a sporting man at that, they dote on him. They nearly made a national festival of it when, 100 years ago, Dr. William Palmer of Rugeley died a sportsman and a poisoner to his fingertips. On June 14, 1856, a crowd of 30,000 jostled and bargained for a good view of the scaffold outside Stafford Gaol, miners caroused in the taverns, and when Palmer died without a struggle, they cried, "Cheat! Twister!", for they had come to see him kick at the end of the rope. Britain...
...doctor replied: "Not until you down yours. You must play fair, old cock...