Word: eminentance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thank you for your energetic coverage of my remarks on the Channel Tunnel, at Lowell House yesterday evening. One or two small points: Mathieu Favier was not Napoleon's staff sergeant but an eminent engineer. And today's tube and tunnel people are on speaking terms: beyond the Channel, members...
Last month 15 of West Germany's most eminent professors rose in protest. Writing to every member of the Bundestag, they urged the outlawing of an atavism that is "utterly incompatible with our contemporary conception of morals and ethics." The professors, including Nobel prizewinning Physicist Max Born, got nowhere...
The construction of the new Government Center, which has already claimed much of storied Scollay Square, will soon level several more victims into the forgotten wastes of eminent domain.
Once the Hotel Rancho Las Cruces, it is now a private club with a list of eminent patrons. Dwight Eisenhower was there recently as the guest of Charles Jones, president of the Richfield Oil Co. W. Alton Jones, executive-committee chairman of Cities Service Co., was on his way to...
Died. Andrew Ellicott Douglass, 94, eminent U.S. astronomer who partially eclipsed his heavenly studies by founding the new science of dendrochronology, a study that makes a timepiece of trees by noting the correlation between the thickness of their annual growth rings and yearly rainfall, from which he dated pueblos back...