Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several faculty members here had joined in the boycott. Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature, last month canceled a lecture scheduled for April 7, at the University of Washington, saying, "No self-respecting scholar could speak there...
Aviation medicine has long felt the need for a new unit to express the force of one G (the acceleration of gravity) acting on a body for one second. At Holloman Air Development Center, New Mexico, where men are exposed to Gs for experimental purposes, the experimenters got in the habit of calling the needed unit a "jerk" or "jolt." A man who had taken four Gs for 20 seconds, for instance, was said to have taken 80 jolts...
...Philadelphia, Dr. Froelich G. Rainey of CBS's What in the World, an archaeological quiz game, is both stunned and pleased by his public notice: "You get recognition from anybody and everybody. The other day a train conductor punched my ticket and then said, 'I know you- you're that fellow on TV.' It's always a surprise for a college professor to get any recognition...
Last week at the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., Astronomers Albert G...
...Harvest Books (Harcourt, Brace), to get under way in August with such chewy fare as Karl Mannheim's Ideology and Utopia and C. G. Jung's Modern Man in Search of a Soul...