Word: mayhew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assembled and working Ford in his room. Another senior found an assembled cement mixer, and still another bumped into a meteorological balloon that stretched from floor to ceiling and from wall to wall-completely filled with water. Even dance decorations may inspire the young scientific mind. Once Dr. George Mayhew, general panjandrum of student affairs, picked up the phone and heard a voice ask: "Dr. Mayhew, did you give permission for a 57-foot rocket to be built by Ricketts House...
Next, he plunged into politics. In South Norfolk the Conservatives picked him (war hero, old Norfolk family) as a candidate, and he promptly astounded politicians by defeating Laborite Christopher Mayhew, then Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs. In Parliament Captain Baker was marked a comer...
...Duke of Wellington and all shades of M.P.s has just returned home. Georgy Malenkov told them: "We believe that the most realistic policy is that of peaceful coexistence-it must be either that or war." "We should fight with ideas, not weapons," Vasily Kuznetzov told British M.P. Christopher Mayhew with some ambiguity. "We want to end capitalism. But we do not impose our ideas...
...case and began raking the school officials. Shawnigan's governors pleaded a misunderstanding; they decided to invite Dorothy and her father to come to British Columbia at the school's expense to smooth over the affair. Canada's retiring Ambassador to Japan, R. W. Mayhew, offered to let the Hewitts live in his home. A Victoria company cabled offering her fare to Victoria...
...company's growth was the work of two men with strikingly different personalities. Maxwell Mayhew Upson. now 77 and board chairman, joined the still-wobbly firm in 1907 as secretary and general manager, soon had it on its feet. In 1911, searching for a man to take charge of a tough dock-construction job. he hired an engineering prodigy, who. at 24, had supervised the building of four railroad tunnels under the Hudson River. That was the beginning of a prosperous partnership between Upson and William Vincent McMenimen, who, at 72, is vice-chairman of the board. Each...