Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...EDWARD RODENHOUSE...
...September day in 1840 the proud, independent-minded people of Maine woke up to find that they had changed their political complexion overnight. The Whig candidate for governor, Edward Kent, and his party's candidates for Congress had upset the Democrats. Out of the victory came a new Whig battle cry for the national elections that were to follow two months later...
...Ghana's Dr. Edward F. B. Forster based his report on research at the Accra mental hospital, of whose 1,117 patients 426 were schizophrenic (a somewhat smaller proportion than that usually found in the West). His findings: schizophrenia is commonest among the educated classes in southern Ghana, who are torn between native and imported Western cultures, and it decreases as distance from the coast and Western influence increases. Said Dr. Forster: "I maintain we are all. endowed with basically similar mental attributes. It is quite clear that the psychological reactions of our patients differ in no way from...
...made atomic explosions can help scientists explore the center of the earth, 4,000 miles down. This is the hope of Professor K. E. (for Keith Edward) Bullen of Australia's University of Sydney, who told a Toronto meeting of geophysicists last week that he has already used waves from A-and H-bomb explosions to refine his theories about the earth's deep metallic core...
...major U.S. stores to open up their books for the benefit of all, went on to help form Associated Merchandising Corp. for cooperative bulk buying from Europe and Asia (now more than $1.5 billion a year). Lincoln wanted to expand Filene's nationwide by merging with other stores; Edward was stubbornly against it, and eventually dropped out of the company's active management...