Word: langdon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...detection system sensitive enough to pick up traces of important Soviet land or air bursts. For the first time the name of the hero of the system slipped into public print last week, when President Eisenhower presented a Distinguished Federal Civilian Service Award to Atomic Detective Doyle L. (for Langdon) Northrup...
From the first class of young divines who went forth in 1642 to enlighten their congregations. Harvard College exerted an uncommon influence on the growing colonies, and John Langdon Sibley, Harvard librarian from 1856-77, was keenly aware of the record. But where, he once wrote distressedly, "was that record of this intellectual and moral power, which during more than two centuries, had been going out from the walls of Harvard?" Determined that not one whit of Veritas be lost to the future, Sibley resolved to write such a record. His project: to write a biographical sketch of every...
Richard G. Langdon '58 and Royall Tyler '57 won the two $35 first prizes in the Boylston speaking contest last night. Langdon delivered the "Iron Curtain" speech given by Winston Churchill at Fulton, Missouri in 1946, and Tyler spoke a part from "Oedipus at Colonus" in Greek...
...finalists are Barry R. Bartle '58, William H. Bassetti '59, Gary S. Gaines '58, Ashok Kumar '59, Richard G. Langdon '58, Duane J. Murner '58, Ernest E. Pell '59, James W. Shue '58, John Trent '57, and Royall Tyler...
Something to Hope For During his first weeks on his new job, one question kept haunting Herbert Gragert, 34: Why had he ever left his pleasant position as school superintendent of Langdon, Kans. to take on such a strange assignment? Last June Warden Arthur Hoffman of Kansas State Penitentiary had persuaded him to take over the prison's faltering school for inmates; but there was no staff and the only facilities available were two small rooms in a storage area. Then one day Gragert suddenly realized that his project was a success. "You see that man over there...