Word: haar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of Law School programs dealing with legal problems in daily life will also be televised over the closed circuit. Charles M. Haar, assistant professor of Law, will moderate a series of discussions on slum clearance which will be repeated later this year on regular telecasts...
...with some relationship to the ever present conservation theme. Two members of the government department, Professor John M. Gaus and Associate Professor Arthur A. Maass, two more from economics, Lecturer Ayers Brinser and Professor John D. Black, and a fifth from the Law School, Associate Professor Charles M. Haar, conduct the program and many of the Fellows spread out into all these areas. Of course, Littauer can hardly teach them much about the particular tasks of their own specialized jobs. But the Fellows can find training in the techniques of high-level policy planning and their courses are designed...
What existed before the "beginning" when the universe exploded? Ter Haar is careful not to answer this biggest question of all. He says merely that "the present epoch" started with the great blowup. What went before he does not claim to know...
...earth and the moon became partners when the solar system was formed, the age of the earth-moon combination is also the age of the solar system. Because of the drag of the tides, the moon is slowly moving away from the earth. The best estimate, says Ter Haar, is that it took the moon two to four billion years to reach its present distance. This gives the age of the earth-moon partnership, and therefore the age of the solar system: two to four billion years...
...Haar's figures point to a kind of "beginning" not more than five billion years ago. They afford, he says, "one of the strongest arguments against the hypothesis of continuous creation...