Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assigned to scholarly, rhumba-dancing Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, the job of putting together an anti-inflation program for the new Congress...
...Edwin H. Colbert of New York City's American Museum of Natural History thinks that the find may be genuine and important: Dr. Efremov has a high reputation among the world's paleontologists. But Dr. Colbert also thinks that a million dinosaurs is a lot of dinosaurs...
...recordings were preserved. The voices of all U.S. Presidents since McKinley have been impressed in wax, as was William Jennings Bryan's famed "Cross of Gold" speech delivered at the 1896 Democratic convention. Other voices recorded for posterity: Tolstoy, Lloyd George, Florence Nightingale, Ellen Terry, Gladstone, Edwin Booth, Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt...
...Harvard-hating segment of the nation's press has been handed a new chance to snipe at the Veritas banner. The papers have just learned that last February Edwin B. Newman of the Psychology Department told Bloomfield College in New Jersey that he did not think psychologists at Bloomfield or elsewhere should be selected for their political or economic beliefs. And the press has also heard that Newman said Bloomfield flouted freedom of speech and conscience when it insisted on orthodox opinions. Hearing all this, they have given Newman harsh publicity in the last month...
...exchange of notes which Edwin B. Newman, lecturer on Psychology, filed and forgot nine months ago has suddenly yielded a flood of letters and newspaper editorials praising him and also damning him as "fuzzy-minded" and "un-American...