Word: lymans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...automatically giving him immunity from prosecution by asking him a question. In 1857 Congress passed a law, applying to all federal bodies and including congressional committees, which oper] ated on lines similar to the 1893 act. The | law was widely abused. In a debate on ; revising the act, Senator Lyman Trumbull j of Illinois said: "Here is a man who stole | $2,000,000 in bonds, if you please, out of i the Interior Department. What does he j do? He gets himself called as a witness before one of the investigating committees, -and testifies something in relation to that...
...Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall is a newspaperman (Detroit News) and a World War I doughboy who became the Army's chief historian in Europe in World War II. As historian, he quickly learned that the usual military records convey neither the look nor the sound of battle. But by questioning everyone from rifleman to army group commander-and fitting the answers together-"Slam" Marshall soon developed a way of describing war, e.g., Island Victory, Bastogne, that made other service histories sound like business balance sheets...
...extinct institution of the Worcester era was Lyman House. Miss Mabel Lyman recognized the need for a place in which students could convalesce after leaving the infirmary, and donated a home that hundreds of men utilized over a period of 20 years. One of Lyman's House's main functions was to take care of mentally-disturbed students who needed the security of something more than dormitory life. It went out with...
...undergraduates have a chance to know Purcell unless they major in Physics. Purcell admits his main interests lie in research and if he had to choose he'd far rather be in his experimental laboratory than teaching Physics 11a--"frankly I think I'm a bit stale there." In Lyman he is sheltered from much of the college life. When non-science students do see him, moreover, they are apt to mistake him for a graduate student--though he is all of 40. The Davidson game was the first football match he's attended in 12 years. "But I love...
Borrowing most of the equipment, the three young experimenters found a sufficiently large magnet in a wooden shed behind Lyman Laboratory and set to work--during nights, Sundays, every spare moment. Unknowingly they were working against time, for 3,000 miles away Bloch was constructing a similar experiment...