Word: eminentance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eminent literary scholar Jerome H. Buckley, recently appointed professor of English, will give a full-year survey course in Victorian literature next year.
With these words, Britain's eminent theologian, Congregationalist Charles H. Dodd, 76, announced last week the secret project that he has been directing for the past 13 years-The New English Bible. Its New Testament will be published on March 14, jointly by the Oxford and Cambridge University Presses...
In the cruel prelude to World War II, many eminent European scientists fled to the U.S. to escape totalitarian tyranny. The U.S. gave them freedom ? and in return they contributed their knowledge and disciplines to its science. World War II itself gave U.S. science its decisive impetus, for from...
Died. Eric Temple Bell, 77, eminent Caltech mathematician (his specialty: the theory of numbers) and science fiction writer (under the name John Taine), whose works ranged from Algebraic Arithmetic to The Cosmic Geoids; of a heart attack; in Watsonville, Calif.
¶ Parents of famous people were often hot partisans of unpopular causes. They were revolutionaries, civic reformers, Zionists, free-soilers, agnostics, abolitionists, objectors to infant damnation. Goertzel. riding his thesis hard, concludes that "the children frequently became eminent by adopting a parental point of view,-by fulfilling in action a...