Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leader of the group was Columbia University's top-notch Chemist Harold C. Urey, discoverer of "heavy water." Other members included Vassar's President Henry Noble MacCracken, Cornell's ex-President Livingston Farrand, Harvard's Law Professor Felix Frankfurter, Columbia's William Heard Kilpatrick. They proposed that U. S. colleges give sanctuary and scholarships to the students fleeing the universities of the Fascist countries "because of their belief in democracy." They would be selected by the International Student Service, chosen for ability to make "a positive contribution to American life." Dr. Urey hoped that large...
...committee of famed football coaches were to call on the average U. S. college president and offer him as a student a halfback like Red Grange, the president would be surprised but would be glad to accept the student tuition-free. Last week a group of 55 famed U. S. educators and scientists wrote to 500 U. S. college presidents offering them not athletes, but the pick of refugee scholars from Germany, Italy and Franco Spain...
Walking across the Johns Hopkins campus one day after a rain, Dr. Wood passed a group of students. As he went by, he spat into a puddle. Instantly, to their amazement, a jet of diabolic yellow flame spurted from the water, fizzled for several seconds before going out. When he passed the same way a quarter-hour later, the students were still arguing about how he did it. What the scientist had done was to conceal a bit of metallic sodium in a piece of paper in his hand. Sodium is so active chemically that it burns on contact with...
...publishing a book of nonsense verses, illustrated by himself. Artistic ability seems to run in the Wood family. The scientist's daughter Margaret (Mrs. Victor C. White of Cedarhurst, L. I.), eldest of his four children, painted a portrait of him which will be presented by a group of friends to the University next week. It appears on TIME'S cover...
...criticism of the setup: Fitch's rated the recent $100,000,000 issue of U. S. Steel debentures as AAA (highest), Standard as A1 (second rank), Poor's and Moody's as A (third rank). Last week, too, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau revealed that the group which has been devising a uniform bank examination was also brewing substantial modifications of bond ratings and eligibility...