Word: lymans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WAYNE LYMAN MORSE, 58, third-term Senator from Oregon, onetime law professor, longtime political migrant who has been in turn a Progressive, Republican (until late '52), Independent and Democrat; credited with one of the Senate's keenest forensic minds; famed on Capitol Hill for windiness (he once orated nonstop for 22 hr. 26 min.), unpredictability, ferocity in debate, and a capacity for nursing grudges...
PORTLAND OREGONIAN: The strange, brilliant, ruthless man who is Oregon's senior Senator, Wayne Lyman Morse, reached the full stature of a demagogue in his campaign to prevent Clare Boothe Luce from serving as Ambassador of the United States to Brazil. In subverting the will of the President and 79 colleagues in the Senate who voted to confirm the nomination, Senator Morse won what may seem to him a victory over his chosen enemy, President Eisenhower. But many of his constituents are ashamed...
...Lyman H. Loomis, professor of Mathematics; Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government; Richard H. Milburn '48, assistant professor of Physics; Pauline A. Miller, research associate in Bacteriology; and William Paul, assistant professor of Solid State Physics, were honored...
...rocket soared through the atmosphere; 123 miles up, the camera began clicking. The camera was fitted with a mirror ruled with a grating of fine lines, 15,000 to the inch, designed to filter out the sun's glaring visible light, which otherwise would have overwhelmed the Lyman-alpha rays given off by the clouds. To keep the camera stabilized in the nose of the yawing rocket, University of Colorado physicists had devised a highly sophisticated motor-operated mount, equipped with photoelectric cells that locked on the sun and kept the camera aimed directly...
Barely missing the Metropolitan Chess League's championship, the "A" team lost to the Cambridge YMCA. Shelby Lyman and Arthur Freeman played first and second boards respectively for the Crimson...