Word: f
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Associate Professor Norman F. Ramsey, chairman of the Harvard Physics Department Cyclotron Committee, speaking first, told briefly how the cyclotron worked. He stated that the new cyclotron is able to accelerate protons to speeds about half that of light, which travels at 186,00 miles per second. The cyclotron weighs 750 tons...
...names of 268 high school graduates who have received Harvard scholarships were announced today by F. Skiddy von Stade, Jr. '24, Director of Scholarships...
...John F. Bruckman of 69 Irving St., Waltham; Waltham Senior High. Stanley L. Cohen of 24 Sidlaw Rd., Brighton; Boston Public Latin. Ellsworth D. Comins of 33 Greenbrier St., Springfield; Classical High, Springfield. Francis J. Cook of 46 Belvedere St., Springfield; Classical High, Springfield. John T. Coughlan of 553 North St., Pittsfield; Pittsfield High...
...last week Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan suddenly changed the rules-and drove the shorts to buying to cover their contracts. Brannan had been begging Congress to give him the power to buy or build additional storage facilities. When Congress finally passed such a bill last week, Brannan acted fast. He not only used the powers Congress had just given him, but dusted off some old ones-which he had had all the time-to give the farmers a lot more...
Modified Raptures. Not everyone cheered. Some critics choked on his whimsy, and youngsters just out of college or World War I found their own spirit more faithfully mirrored in F. Scott Fitzgerald. But Morley's faithful coterie held tight to the illusion that a sky-high I.Q. and a sensitive nose for Culture were necessary to appreciate the Old Master's offerings. Readers shivered with delight at his rapid-fire quotations and laborious puns, and reverently slipcovered their autographed first editions. They looked the other way when Reviewer Harry Hansen told them that The Trojan Horse (1937) read...