Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alarmist reports to the contrary, West Germany is merely going through an essentially healthy process of deflation, not a slump. Would prosperity continue? Says Erhard: "I'm dead sure...
This time, the Republicans dressed up their account of Tan's execution with details. Tan, they said, was executed by a firing squad April 9, near Blitar, in East Java. The Republicans also reported that they had executed three other Communist chieftains: former Premier Amir Sjarifoed-den, R. M. Suripino, a former Republican diplomat, and a Communist Party secretary named Hadjono...
These cap-and-gowners, Shirley M. Gallup, Doris B. Bennett, Martha K. Caires, Edith L. Stone, and eight other classmates last week received the first M.D. degrees ever awarded to women by Harvard Medical School. At graduation, they were the symbolical victors of a century-long battle. It was in 1847 that the first woman began trying to get into the medical school; but Harvard would have none of her, nor of any women thereafter (one reason: too many medical women graduates never bothered to practice). Finally, in 1945, when the wartime shortage of doctors had become acute, Harvard relented...
...University of Chicago's Robert M. Hutchins could see nothing but harm coming from this "cloak-and-stiletto work . . . [It] will not merely mean that many persons will suffer for acts that they did not commit, or for acts that were legal when committed, or for no acts at all. Far worse is the end result, which will be that critics, even of the mildest sort, will be frightened into silence . . ." Loyalty oaths for teachers are utterly useless, said Hutchins, "for teachers who are disloyal will certainly be dishonest; they will not shrink from a little perjury...
...coordination of the findings of amateur stargazers" by presenting him with an honorary Master of Arts. Amateur Campbell also announced that he expected to retire as Pickering Memorial Astronomer, a special post created to further Campbell's work with amateurs. As for the future: "I'm not going to quit astronomical work-just carry on in a more leisurely fashion...