Word: lydia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back to 1871, when an uppity Vassar grad applied to study chemistry. The faculty let her in, but carefully kept her name (Ellen Swallow) off the rolls. She wound up on the faculty, and in 1883 the whole place went coed-turning out such alumnae as Battleship Designer Lydia G. Weld ('02) and City Planner Elisabeth Coit ('18). More than half of Tech's living alumnae work fulltime as artists, aerodynamicists, doctors, ministers, missile developers and math professors. Still, the total number is small-only 572 women hold M.I.T. degrees...
...Beta Kappa Society of Radcliffe College has announced the election of eight juniors: Kate L. Bernstein, of Moors Hall and Great Neck, N.Y., Biology; Lorella M. Jones, of Whitman Hall and Pittsburgh, Pa., Mathematics; Lydia K. Lake, of Barnard Hall and New Canaan, Conn., Classics; Joan E. Lusk, of Saville House and Oradell, N.J., Chemistry; L. Emilie Schrader, of Coggeshall House and St. Paul, Minn., Social Studies; Gail E. Thain, of Whitman Hall and Evanston, III., History and Literature; Ann D. Watson, of Moors Hall and Mentham, N.J., English; and Emily Zack, of Eliot Hall and New York City, History...
Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Cyril Ritchard is "Chief Admirer" in a show documenting female beauty throughout history. Other commentators: Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ruby Dee, Lillian Gish, Anita Colby, Lydia Prochnicka, Katherine Anne Porter, Jimmy Durante, Alexander King, Richard Brooks, Pierre Olaf...
...archaeologists also found several little blobs of copper, identical in shape and weight with the earliest know gold and silver coins of Lydia. They may prove to be the earliest units of small currency and thus of importance in finding out how the Lydians happened to invent money...
Federal control, beginning with the Food and Drug Act of 1906, gradually cut down the nostrum peddlers' bombast. Labeling requirements forced Lydia Pinkham's heirs to note that her vegetable compound for "falling of the womb and other female weaknesses" contained "18% of alcohol," but they piously insisted that it was there "solely as a solvent and preservative." Parker's "True Tonic" for "in ebriates" gave its victims a hair of the dog with 41.6% alcohol (83 proof...