Word: field
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free exchange of knowledge. Except insofar as restrictions are required by the exigencies of national defense, we believe that there should be no restrictions." ¶The Rockefeller Institute's Fritz Lipmann (1953 prize-discoverer of coenzyme A) cited a research group whose classified work in a fast-moving field became obsolete before it was permitted to be published. "Such instances damage the morale of the scientific worker." ¶Harvard's Percy W. Bridgman (1946 prize-physics of high pressures): "If I think that my colleague may be able to make some helpful suggestion, I can feel it only...
Princeton University Marian Anderson, singer, alternate U.S."' delegate to the U.N L.H.D. Citation: "Her transcendent powers of human understanding have made her our most influential cultural ambassador, to the world at large." James Gilluly, staff geologist, U.S. Geological Survey Sc.D. Citation: "Dean of American field geologists, inimitable investigator of the inanimate, he is the spiritual descendant of the classical giant Antaeus, who was never so strong as when his feet stood on terra firma." Mason W. Gross, newly elected president, Rutgers University LL.D. Clark Kerr, newly elected president,' University of California LL.D. Jean Monnet, French economist and statesman...
...other field events, the U.S. put on display an unrivaled roster of world champions, and each of them came through without serious challenge. Harold Connolly easily won his specialty, the hammer. Marine Lieut. Al Cantello (TIME, June 15) won the javelin, even though his winning toss was some 35 ft. shy of his pending world mark. Parry O'Brien, 28, rippling his muscles amid assorted grunts, snorts and grimaces, heaved the shot 62 ft. 2 in. for his seventh A.A.U. title in eight years, took dead aim on an Olympic gold medal...
...interest in the Iranian consortium, and a 50% interest in Caltex operations in Sumatra and elsewhere. To back them up, Texaco bought Trinidad Oil Co. Ltd. in 1956, last year added Seaboard Oil Co. Now with Superior, it gets big production in Venezuela's rich Maracaibo field, crude-oil reserves of well over 300 million bbl., plus excellent drilling prospects in Texas and Louisiana...
This exhibit, however, did contain a lot of junk. For example, the fields of scratches that constituted Robert Partin's "Offing" and "In the Rain" surely did not merit showing. Nor did William Tokeshi's field of dashes; Tokeshi labeled it "No Title," and small wonder. Prizes of $250 went to four works, none of which was outstanding...