Word: mckay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Douglas McKay is not an intellectual, an actor, a proved bigtime administrator, or a leader with a large personal following. He dislikes arguing issues and he distrusts "New Deal longhairs." He knows how to do a job and how to get along with people and, in the U.S., that is sometimes better than theory...
Another attempt--the fourth during Eliot's presidency--was made in 1904 after Harvard had received a bequest form the estate of Gordon McKay for the promotion of applied science...
Fevers soon cooled, however, and M.I.T. and Harvard collaborated on public health education after 1912. On 1915 a joint graduate School of Engineering was set up which even granted joint degrees, but within two years a court declared the plan illegal under the terms of the McKay will...
...machine will create particles of a higher energy than was ever before possible," Harvey Brooks, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, explained. This will enable scientists to observe high-energy phenomena, valuable in determining the nature of the atom, he added...
Died. Paul Patterson, 55, governor of Oregon since 1952, when he stepped from the presidency of the state senate to fill the post vacated by Douglas McKay, who had resigned to become U.S. Secretary of the Interior; of a heart attack, three days after announcing that he would run on the Republican ticket in November against Senator Wayne Morse; in Portland...