Word: kenneth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate after that and the Senate unrolled an extraordinary show. First, Republican Whip Kenneth Wherry tried to get an agreement on a time to vote. But Oregon's dapper New Dealing Republican Wayne Morse, who had opposed the Taft-Hartley bill from the beginning, objected to any closing of debate. Republican Morse joined with Democrats Claude Pepper, Harley Kilgore, Glen Taylor to filibuster...
...Kenneth W. Donald, the British Navy's chief oxygen investigator, admits that he and his associates found the whole phenomenon highly mystifying. Their subjects (all volunteers) varied enormously in resistance to oxygen poisoning; and each individual varied greatly from day to day. One man was poisoned in seven minutes one day, resisted the same dose for nearly 2½ hours another day. For some unknown reason, people are more vulnerable to oxygen poisoning under water than under the same pressure in a pressure chamber. And at a pressure of one atmosphere or less (as in high-altitude flight), human...
...KENNETH A. WILLARD...
Said Ralph Kenneth Davies, former Deputy Petroleum Administrator, to a Senate committee: "We do not face an oil shortage, we are in the midst...
...Kenneth Roberts came across this diary while researching his latest novel, Lydia Bailey (TIME, Jan. 6), and got all excited about it. Written in French, and almost unknown in the U.S., the diary was a sophisticated study, by an observant French emigre, of the callow U.S. of the 1790s. Roberts persuaded his wife to translate it and polished the translation himself. First of Moreau de St. Méry's many works to be put into English, it is not to be compared for literary quality to the contemporary notes of another French traveler, Chateaubriand. But it introduces...