Word: nicholases
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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*The only U.S. university heads in office longer than Hutchins are Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler (42 years), Clark's Wallace Walter Atwood (23 years) and Cal Tech's Robert Andrews Millikan (22 years).
The Corps made its first beachhead landing in the first year of its existence, 1776. That was on New Providence, the Bahama Islands, when Captain Samuel Nicholas took 220 marines and 50 sailors ashore as the schooner Wasp and the sloop Providence laid down supporting fire. Captain Nicholas captured 71...
Among the new determinations of distances is that of the great globular cluster in Hercules, which is 31 light years away. The address was made at the presentation of a painting of Nicholas Copernicus to the observatory.
Bald, grey-fringed, vigorous Dr. Cattell was a pacifist whose opponents always knew they had been in a fight. In 1917, after Columbia University's Nicholas ("Miraculous") Murray Butler had solemnly warned his facultymen against "seditious" behavior, Cattell promptly wrote Congress urging it not to send unwilling draftees to...
While the ruling classes walk toward the exit, plain Bulgarians are beginning to run. At the country's two political extremes stand: 1) pro-Nazi army commanders, intelligentsia, court figures around Prince Cyril, one of the three regents and brother of the late King Boris; 2) the Communist-led...