Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Princeton, Ernest G. Wever, Eugene Higgens Professor of Psychology, whose course in animal psychology is one of the most highly regarded at Princeton, said, "I just don't believe a Princeton student would do such an unkind and ungentlemanly thing...
...plan for a divinity school which would "emulate the freedom, diversity, and habits of controversy which characterize the rest of a great secular university" was announced today by professor Morton G. White, Chairman of the Philosophy Department in the last issue of Confluence magazine...
Various government and United Nations officials as well as lawyers are now trying to avoid the legal chaos which could easily result. The President of the International Astronautical Federation, Andrew G. Haley, will deliver a lecture on space law at the Law School November 25. Haley and others have even made suggestions as to how mankind must treat any alien races it meets in its future explorations of space. But the problems that have now grown to immediate concern are the old thorny ones of sovereignty that have constantly plagued international relations on this sphere...
Mayer's contract with M-G-M gave him 10% of the studio's profits. For seven years in the late '30s and early '40s he was the highest-paid executive in the nation, in 1937 made $1,296,503. Success never softened his muscle. Hollywood had it that at one time or another he used his fists tellingly on Charlie Chaplin, Walter Wanger and Sam Goldwyn...
Enter Senary; Exit Mayer. But even Mayer turned out to be vulnerable. In 1948 he startled Hollywood by handing over production of M-G-M films to onetime Scriptwriter Dore Schary. The two soon clashed over the proper themes for the studio's pictures. Finally the old man quit MGM, talked vaguely of again making pictures that "you can take your mother and children...