Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ERNEST U. GAMBARO...
Hoffmann, Friedrich and Ernest R. May, associate professor of History, held out some hope for the Geneva Conference later this month. "It would be delightful if the Russians even agreed to negotiate seriously," May declared...
...17th century, when legend has it that an apple plopped on Don Isaac Newton's head and inspired his theory of gravity. In its famed Cavendish Laboratory, founded in 1872, Cambridge boasts one of the world's great centers of nuclear research. At Cavendish in 1919, Sir Ernest Rutherford first demonstrated nuclear reaction. Then Sir James Chadwick discovered the neutron; others have gone on to everything from the kinetic theory of gases to isolating the insulin molecule and piercing space with radio astronomy. "When it comes to research," says one Cavendish man. "we knock Oxford...
...Evelyn Ernest Percy Tisdall has an improbable hobby for the head of a boarding school for young children: fireworks. He also goes in for fireworks in a literary way with court-scandal biographies, such as Alexandra, Edward VII's Unpredictable Queen, and Marie Fedorovna: Empress of Russia. His latest is about the Queen whose present reputation is about as far removed from gamy gossip as it is possible to get. But in her own lifetime the black-draped Widow of Windsor was openly rumored to be having a Lady Chatterley-like affair with a Scottish gamekeeper, and Scandalmonger Tisdall...
...straight face that "Communism is 20th century Americanism," and half the leading U.S. writers believed him. The aging Lincoln Steffens could return from Russia declaring "I have seen the future, and it works." It was the time of the fellow traveler, and among the famous fellows who traveled were Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos and Theodore Dreiser...