Word: drawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee was drawn, Buck said, "from existing departments of the faculty which have an interest in geography." Donald G. Mckay, professor of History, is chairman. Other members of the group...
From the cosmic dust, Whipple has drawn a theory on the origin of the earth-now probably the ranking theory among astronomers. He hypothesizes that the solar system was once all dust, and that the dust collected to form planets. And what, at first, drove the dust together? Not gravity, says Whipple, and not molecular attraction--but the seemingly insignificant push exerted by light beams, streaming out from...
...still re-legalize the closed shop, clean up the non-voting rules which now disenfranchise strikers in plant elections, and provide for legal machinery less abrupt, than the present injunctions rules. In the Senate, there is some hope of compromise between the Administration bill and a minority proposal drawn up this week by Senator Taft. In both Houses, though, labor forces will have to contend with stubborn opposition from Republicans and Southerners--opposition which is itself past the point of compromise...
Professor Joseph Fletcher of the Episcopal Theological Seminary played with the topic: "New Social forces in the World." When drawn out in the following discussion period, he stated that the war now shaping up has aspects of a class war, and that the U. S. is prone to talk of liberty, but not "justice." Nothing, he declared, would be as indecent as a deliberate war on any nation that might attack...
...Council for Planning Action is sponsoring the symposium, with lecturers drawn from three Harvard departments, and from the outside world...