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...Voluntary censorship" of all U.S. scientific publications was announced by the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council. Reason: lest research data of indirect military significance fall under enemy eyes...
...honorary degree according to ancient usage is one granted to a person whom the University wishes to honor, or whose incorporation in the University is deemed an honor to the institution. In modern times most such degrees represent mutual backscratching by college presidents and recognition of indirect if concrete contributions to learning by such men as J. P. Morgan '89, LL.D. '23. Recipients of honorary degrees are almost without exception only those no farther left than dead center and capable of unqualified approval by the Dies Committee and the D.A.R...
Knudsen Out, Nelson In. That afternoon, in the session of SPAB, top defense board, SPABsters leaned back in their chairs. Smoke curled overhead lazily. The day was tagging out; the indirect lights over the long walnut table had been clicked on. It was nearly 5 o'clock...
...plan seems eminently feasible as a crisis measure; in the sort of war we are now waging it might well be disastrous to let every student volunteer or be drafted willy-nilly, without regard to what job would constitute his maximum usefulness. And incidentally, the system would be an indirect benefit to endowed institutions through the added tuition...
Thyssen's first contribution was indirect -about 100,000 gold marks to Ludendorff for a Hitler-Ludendorff coup against the Communist Government of Saxony. (It did not come off, but turned into the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923.) In 1928 Rudolf Hess went to Thyssen and told him the Nazis were hard put to pay for the Brown House they had bought in Munich. Thyssen arranged a loan through the banks. Only a small part of it was ever paid by the Nazis; Thyssen paid the rest himself. Hermann Goring wanted to enlarge his apartment "to cut a better...