Word: nobeled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lohr's ideas of popular science were unpopular with many top-notch scientists. Coldly received last week was his definition of the object of science & industry: "to supply better goods cheaper." Sniffed scholarly Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, dean of physical sciences at University of Chicago: "Faraday, as he discovered the laws of electricity, which are basic to electrical engineering, was not concerned with making better things cheaper. . . . A tragedy has occurred in the cultural life of our city...
University of Chicago has Nobel-prize-winning Physicist James Franck; Eduard Benes; Italy's famed Physicist Bruno Rossi and Novelist Giuseppe Borgese; distinguished Art Teacher Ulrich A. Middeldorf. At California Institute of Technology, German-born Dr. Spiro Kyropoulos is doing important research on oil; at University of California at Los Angeles is famed Composer Arnold Schönberg. At Columbia University is renowned Viennese Neurologist Otto Marburg. Alvin Johnson's own Institute has on its graduate faculty ("University in Exile") Fernando de los Rios, onetime Spanish Ambassador; Erwin Piscator, onetime director of Berlin's People...
Amateurs. Candidate Willkie was soon hard put to it to find new ways of welcoming newsworthy recruits. President Hamilton Holt of Rollins College came out for him. So did President Ernest Hopkins of Dartmouth, Nobel Prizewinners Dean George Whipple of Rochester University, Dr. George Minot of Harvard. ("I am very much pleased that this type of citizen is coming out for me. These men represent the very best in our intellectual and social life. . . .") So did President Charles Seymour of Yale ("a Democrat since Woodrow Wilson...
Nearly completed was Nobel Prize-winning Author Pearl Buck's "Book of Hope"-a collection of 1,000 signatures, each representing a donation of $100 or more to the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China. Both book and money will be sent to Mme. Chiang Kaishek...
Yeats slaved for his faction until it began to foster realistic writing: then he proudly withdrew. But, as a Free State Senator and Ireland's Nobel Prizewinner, he skirmished on loyally for the literary cause, won for the Abbey a national subsidy, and founded, with George Bernard Shaw, the Irish Academy of Letters. He was 70 before he received his first friendly public tribute from his countrymen-a birthday dinner at Dublin's Hibernian Hotel. Members of all factions were present. All found it impossible not to cheer their heads...