Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alternative to nationalization, as offered by Edwin J. Jacob '47 is America's system of "controlled free enterprise" where the government is empowered with certain checks on the economic system...
Next day, organized Arab bands of about 100 each struck again, at Jewish settlements along the coast below Jaffa and at Ramat Rachel, only three miles from Jerusalem. Again British forces intervened and drove off the attackers. At week's end, Jews blew up the "Bridge of Jacob's Daughters" over the River Jordan to cut one of the main Arab invasion routes into northern Palestine...
...Council's two veteran debaters, William P. D. Bailey '46 and Edwin J. Jacob '47 will defend the negative on the subject: "Resolved, That the social and economic advantages to be gained from nationalization of basic industries would be overwhelming." J. Phillip Bahn '49 and Paul L Wright '49 are alternates...
Have a Heart. A high spot of the meeting was a speech by President James B. Conant of Harvard on "The Role of Science in our Unique Society." Conant seemed worried, as most thoughtful scientists are, by the horrifying weapons and powerful techniques that Jacob-science has put into the hairy military hands of Esau. The remedy, he thought, is not to stop research (it can't be done) but to give more thought to the sciences (anthropology, sociology, psychology) which study Man and his relationships with his fellow...
Bailey and Jacob took the affirmative in last spring's Cambridge debate when the visitors' team won a 2 to 1 decision in Paine Hall before an audience...