Word: gauss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME'S intention was not to criticize the frequent lower-case spelling of Diesel but to spotlight the fact that the name of the engine had eclipsed the name of the man. Some other scientific words (besides watt and ampere) from the names of great pioneers: ohm, coulomb, gauss, henry, maxwell, gilbert, volt (from Volta), galvanize (from Galvani...
...Moffat, Minister to Canada, will also act as Minister to Luxembourg's refugee Government. Plump Nelson Trusler Johnson, wearied by the strain of his five years of tension and overwork as Ambassador to China, was shifted to the Australian legation, and the Australian Minister, horse-faced Clarence Edward Gauss, transferred to Chungking. Another transfer brought Bert Fish, now Minister to Egypt, to Portugal, at the same rank; while swell-shirted Herbert Claiborne Pell, the Newport bolshevik, moved from the hot spot at Lisbon to one at Budapest, as Minister to Hungary. Edwin Carleton Wilson, at Uruguay and William Dawson...
...labor union had ever before been compelled to make public the names of its members. President Hendley, objecting that disclosure would endanger union members' jobs, refused to hand over the list. Many another union, many a distinguished educator (among them: Princeton's Dean Christian Gauss) backed him in his refusal. But last week New York's highest court, the Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that Mr. Hendley must give up the list. A sheriff went hunting for Mr Hendley, prepared to jail him if he still refused...
...crucial question whether Australian Labor could now force a test at the polls and, if victorious, proceed to make the Commonwealth out-&-out Socialist was adjourned while obsequies of the senior Ministers and Chief of Staff were held, with new U. S. Minister to Australia Clarence Gauss in attendance. While the Prime Minister quietly took his political soundings, Major General John Northcott was promoted to act as new Chief of the Australian General Staff. The late Chief, Sir Brudenell White, was buried last week in a little brush cemetery a few miles from his ranch...
...educators, philosophers and clergymen, among them John Dewey, University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, University of California's President Robert Gordon Sproul, Smith's President-emeritus William Allan Neilson, Harvard's Professors Alfred North Whitehead and Harlow Shapley, Princeton's Dean Christian Gauss. In City College's Great Hall, 1,200 undergraduates cheered famed Philosopher Morris Raphael Cohen as he said: "Not a single college authority, parent or teacher in any institution where Russell has taught has complained of the corrupting influence of his teaching...