Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confused with Dr. William M. M. Kirby, his identical twin, an instructor at Stanford University School of Medicine...
...tramp around there day after day," he says, "looking for something to paint. Mood is what I'm after. I go through hell to get a good subject, but once I do I'm happy because it's always something I feel close...
Historian Sterling regards himself as no great scholar ("I'm just an ordinary guy"), is known as an able, amiable administrator. When told that Stanford's trustees had picked him out of 200 candidates, he couldn't quite believe it. "A complete surprise," says Sterling. "I'm pleased, complimented, honored and gratified...
...best guarantee that Madison's newspapers will stay that way. Born in Wisconsin of Norwegian stock and educated at the University of Wisconsin, Evjue became managing editor of the Journal at 29. In 1917, when the paper attacked the late great Senator Robert M. LaFollette for his pacifism, Evjue quit to found the Times. (He later edited LaFollette's Progressive on the side.) The Times has been expressing Evjue's strident personality ever since. From the start, Evjue faced a financial struggle that made him a penny-pinching editor. His circulation is now the state...
...fast will the XF7U-1 go? It is no secret (and the shape itself would be a giveaway) that it was designed to fly considerably faster than Mach 1. Navy Test Pilot Captain F. M. Trapnell, who is putting the XF7U-1 through its paces, said that he has not yet worked it to top speed or top altitude. He expects, however, that it will prove "the fastest of them...