Word: gibbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hamilton A. R. Gibb of Oxford University, a world-famed authority on the Middle East, will join the faculty as the newest University Professor starting next July...
...Gibb, who will also serve as the Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic, will take a large part in research and teaching in the Center of Middle Eastern Studies, President Pusey said yesterday...
Last week another Shah, 34-year-old Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, journeyed to Isfahan, Iran's third city, to celebrate the completion of the project. Foreigners had come to the aid of the Iranians: Britain's engineering firm of Sir Alexander Gibb and the U.S.'s Point Four Administration, which contributed $200,000 to complete the work in four years. Soon, Karun's waters will flow through the mountains along a 9,000-ft. tunnel and spill over the thirsty Isfahan valley, irrigating 150,000 acres, and making a prosperous farmland out of desert...
...Margaret and Mary Gibb, 41-year-old twins joined at the base of the spine, both had to be anesthetized at Boston's New England Deaconess Hospital for famed Surgeon Frank Lahey to remove a fibrous tumor from Margaret's abdomen. After the two-hour operation, both sisters were reported doing fine...
...level is a rather gruesome landmark in high-altitude flying. It is the level at which the air has so little pressure that human blood (temperature 98.6° F.) begins to boil. If something had gone wrong and Wing Commander Gibb had been exposed to the pressure outside his cockpit,' his veins and tissues would have puffed up with a froth of water vapor, his spinal fluid would have begun to beil, and he would have died in a few seconds...