Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Weird Mysteries. As head of Sheffield (he is also president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science), Dr. Sinnott presides over a school that grew out of a dank laboratory, 15 feet below the ground because the architect was fearful of "the black arts, explosions . . . and weird-like mysteries" of chemistry. The cellar lab was built for Professor Benjamin Silliman, the father of scientific teaching in the U.S.-whose name was frequently honored at Sheffield's centennial last week...
University American Veterans Committee members will elect ten delegates tonight to attend the AVC State Convention in Springfield, November 14, 15 and 16. Nominations were made two weeks...
Chief interest in the University centers on the Liberal Union campaign to elect Rembert Stokes to the City Council and Kenneth deP. Hughes to the School Committee. Both are Negroes...
...bureau have traveled 10,000 miles just keeping up with two of the U.S.'s leading politicians. Their journeying is a forerunner and a token of the thousands of miles TIME'S bureaumen and correspondents throughout the country will travel next year covering the national campaign to elect a 33d President...
...UNSCOP's majority favored partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab nations, with independence set for Sept. 1, 1949. The minority plan (advanced by India, Persia and Yugoslavia) proposed semi-autonomous Jewish and Arab states within a Palestine federation, in which, because of greater numbers, the Arabs would elect the chief executive. Zionists regarded the majority plan as better than nothing. Arabs denounced both plans, opposed a Jewish state of any kind in Palestine...