Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came of a long line of British squires who, from the time of Willmus Cripps in the 12th Century, had been known as champions of the underdog. Stafford's aunt, Beatrice Webb (a sister of Cripps's mother), helped turn the youthful instinct for social justice toward formal socialism. Cripps was born in 1889, the year Uncle Sidney and Aunt Beatrice published the famous Fabian Essays in Socialism...
Einstein proteges Stefan S. Wilkes and George Bochner both serve on the Princeton Faculty. The atomic-energy-for-military-purposes report, produced by a committee including men from both sources and chaired by Smyth, who holds dual connection, typifies the scope of coordination which can exist, despite barriers of formal organization, in a compact and relatively isolated collegiate center...
...formal report claims that equal chance still exists for the Student Activities Center and Medical Center proposals. But according to Ralph Lowell '12, acting chairman until Leverett Saltonstall '14 returns from a European Congressional junket, the committee fought sore temptation to announce a final decision now. "Only deference to the Senator," Lowell admitted Wednesday, "determined our plan to wait until the turn of the year...
...James answered Vishinsky's question, improving the occasion by reading him a short lesson on the difference between the Russian and the U.S. press. Wrote James: "There was no one who would order the Times not to print [the first Vishinsky attack] and since it was a formal speech by the representative of a great power, this newspaper printed it. . . . [Vishinsky] has repeated it over and over. There was no one to order his speech printed when there was no news in it and so it was not printed again. . . . Mr. Vishinsky is down on the agenda for another...
Long-term close contact with the same group of boys sometimes produces a kind of camaraderie enduring as long as the more formal education in the University proper. Lloyd Marcus '47 found that his four shavers at the Margaret Fuller House near Central Square knew little about anything beyond their dozen-block radius. What started out at that point an attempt to "see Boston" through tours of radio stations and industrial plants soon took on larger proportions. Marcus figured the gang would barely escape ecstasy at the prospect of looking over New York City. With friend Norbert Jacker...