Word: harold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...absence of Harold Stassen, president of the University of Pennsylvania, who has been in London, was getting to be a campus issue. "Where's Dr. Stassen?" cried the undergraduate Daily Pennsylvanian. "This question has been asked more by the incoming freshman class than the directions to College Hall . . . And we realize what a hard year the first one is. But all good things must come to an end and we believe that Dr. Stassen unnecessarily missed the opening peal of the school bell. After all, the European trip was his third vacation, he'd just returned from Maine...
...Economics Department is making a definite attempt to reintroduce tutorial, Harold H. Burbank '15, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, announced yesterday...
...argument began in Manhattan's federal courthouse last January, court stenographers had typed up almost 20,000 pages of testimony. The defense had called 35 witnesses in 109 trial days, the Government 15 in 37 days; between them, opposing counsel had put 761 different exhibits into evidence. Judge Harold Medina had jailed five of the defendants and formally cited one defense lawyer for contempt (his punishment will be set after the verdict is returned...
With Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin also in Switzerland for a rest cure, Prime Minister Clement Attlee was left alone to face Britain's mounting economic crisis. By the beginning of August, world confidence in the pound had fallen dangerously. Attlee sent Board of Trade President Harold Wilson to Switzerland to consult with Bevin and Cripps. Attlee felt a decision could no longer be postponed. Cripps was still against devaluation...
After the President's announcement last week of the U.S.S.R.'s progress in making an atomic bomb (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Nobel-Prizewinner Harold C. Urey spoke for U.S. scientists. Said he: "We were never so sorry in our lives that we were so right." Since June 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists had shown on its cover two clock-hands pointing to 11:52. Individual scientists, groups of scientists and scientific associations have solemnly warned, time & again, that the clock would soon strike twelve...