Word: karle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred years ago next month, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published their famed Manifesto: "A specter is haunting Europe-the specter of Communism." Last week Russia prepared to celebrate the anniversary with suitable huzzahs. "I would like old Marx to see how we are now storming the planet!" cried young Poet Sergei Narovchatov in an ode for the literary magazine Novy Mir (New World). Other excerpts from Poet Narovchatov's proud progress report...
Almost 500 students braved snow and forewent exam study to watch British debating style win the split-decision of judges Karl Compton, President of M.I.T.: Ralph Lowell '12, member of the Board of Overseers; and Charles E. Whitamore, British Consul-General in Boston...
...other side of the issue, Fackenthal, acting president of Columbia University, endorsed the whole integrated program for national security, including military training. The Truman Advisory Committee on University Military Training was headed by MIT President Karl Compton...
...Soviet State Publishing House put out Volume One of a projected Big Soviet Encyclopedia. Its title page listed Shmidt as chief of a 14-man board of editors made up entirely of Old Bolsheviks; Karl Radek and Nicolai Bukharin were among them. As years passed, and volume followed volume to the presses, purge followed purge. Radek was imprisoned, Bukharin shot, and one by one the names on Volume One's title page disappeared in Stalin's great liquidation. By 1938, when the purge was hottest and Volume 37 appeared, Shmidt alone was left; he kept cool and smiling...
...search for a replacement, the Council immediately secured the services of Whitamore, who was appointed Consul-General only a month ago. With him will be Karl Compton, M.I.T. president, and Ralph Lowell '12, member of the Board of Overseers...