Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inaugurating a new season next Tuesday evening at 5 o'clock in Kirkland House Common Room. Movies of the 1936 Olympics and the Dartmouth ski team's trip to Chile will be shown through the courtesy of Ted Hunter, team member and Olympic skier. Alec Bright '19, founder of Harvard skiing, is expected to be there...
Polish-born Count Alfred, a U. S. resident since the War, during which he was on the Russian general staff, is the founder of the new science of General Semantics (lately popularized, superficially, by Stuart Chase). His Science and Sanity, published in 1933, is its most profound and practical textbook. A renowned engineer and mathematician, Korzybski is respected by scientists also for his contributions to psychiatry, psychology and other sciences...
...roomy rebuilt stable on his uncle's estate near Norfolk, Conn., James Laughlin IV runs New Directions between sessions at Harvard, where he has been in intermittent attendance for the last six years. Born in Pittsburgh 24 years ago, James Laughlin IV is a descendant of the founder of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.- a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), dark, personable young man with an earnest, attentive manner, a stubborn jaw and much practical business sense. He grew up on Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Laughlin says that he never read a book until he was 16. Then...
Founded in 1859 by Inventor Peter Cooper, who built the first U. S. locomotive ("Tom Thumb"), Cooper Union still bears many marks of its picturesque founder. He created it as an institution to teach engineering and art free to the children of the poor. Almost forgotten are some of Peter Cooper's pious stipulations: e.g. "I trust that the students of this institution will do something to bear back the mighty torrent of evils now pressing on the world...
...beginning to gain credence, there was no medial school in the U. S. worthy of the name. American students went abroad to do research, learn surgical and laboratory technique. In 1883 Daniel Coit Gilman, head of Johns Hopkins University, heartened by a $3,228,000 bequest from the Quaker founder of the school, began scouting for distinguished professors who would form the nucleus of a great U. S. medical faculty...