Word: edwin
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...committee has ignored astrophysicists like Kirshner at the expense of other kinds of physicists in the past. Beck suggested that Kirshner could win a “make-up prize” given by the committee to right what he described as a past injustice—not giving Edwin P. Hubble the Nobel for his original theory on expansion of the universe...
Reischauer said his experiences as a Harvard student, a member of the Board of Overseers and the son of the late Edwin O. Reischauer—a renowned scholar of Japan and a former Harvard professor—give him a variety of perspectives to bring to the post...
...intrigue and puzzle. One that lasts for 47 years through two world wars, constant money worries, international fame and five children would seem solidly based on shared interests and attitudes and aligned emotions and temperaments. But as Jane Ridley demonstrates in this engrossing study of the relationship between Edwin Lutyens, the leading English architect of the first half of the 20th century, and his wife Emily, nothing could be further from the truth. Lutyens - the prolific and imaginative designer behind much of Imperial New Delhi, London's Cenotaph war memorial and scores of country houses in England and France...
Fairness is another concern. Edwin Darden, senior staff attorney for the National School Boards Association, agrees that the ruling "captures the imagination that some nice kid who blows the trumpet, is in the chess club or is in the Future Farmers of America will be subjected to all these drug tests." But in practice Darden expects "a nonreaction" similar to what followed the 1995 ruling on athlete testing...
...Bulldogs showed why they had a breakout season by coming out very strong in the second half. Led by freshmen Alex Gamboa and Edwin Draughan, Yale shot 61 percent in the second half and held Harvard scoreless for seven minutes. Gellert got into foul trouble and suddenly the 16-point lead evaporated into thin air. Once Yale took a 49-46 lead with eight minutes left, it had gained the momentum and did not give it back en route...