Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Georgetown University's Dr. Edward B. Tuohy, who exhibited the hypospray at a Washington meeting last fortnight, foresaw a crop of new whodunit plots: "Why, with this gun someone could readily substitute poison for insulin, shoot his victim by pressing the hypospray gun against him in a crowd, and . . . the victim wouldn't know he'd been...
...States of America. With routine reverence, the ladies placed a wreath before the eight-foot bronze statue of Jefferson Davis (which stared gloomily north). Then they sat back to listen to a eulogy by sallow, hawk-nosed Dr. Charles C. Tansill, Texas-born history professor at Washington's Georgetown University...
With mixed feelings, University of California's President Robert G. Sproul called them "D.A.R.s" (Damned Average Raisers). Said Georgetown University Student John Mislan, 25, ex-ski trooper and veteran of four months' combat in Italy: "The majority of veterans are pushing their education too fast. They are running but they don't know what they are running...
...members: Joseph (Mission to Moscow) Davies, ex-Ambassador to Russia and sometime apologist for the Soviet Union; the Rev. Daniel Poling, noted Baptist minister and editor of the Christian Herald; Charles E. Wilson, president of General Electric Co. and wartime vice-chairman of WPB; the Rev. Edmund Walsh, Georgetown University geopolitician; Samuel Rosenman, onetime adviser and ghostwriter to Franklin Roosevelt; Dr. Harold Dodds, president of Princeton University; Truman Gibson Jr., Negro attorney and onetime civilian aide to the Secretary of War; and one woman, Hungarian-born Anna Rosenberg, labor-relations expert...
...Washington a man under no diplomatic restrictions gave a more candid answer. The man was Dr. Edmund Walsh, founder of Georgetown University's famed School of Foreign Service, consultant to the U.S. Army on geopolitics, lecturer at the General Staff School, consultant at the Nürnberg trials, specialist in Russian history. Said Jesuit Father Walsh...