Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make the boat" for the XIV Olympiad. Making the boat (the S.S. America) for London this week didn't depend on how many world's records a man had set already; under the ironclad Olympic rules, the only thing that mattered now was how he did in Northwestern University's Dyche Stadium...
...week's Science magazine, Dr. Alber Wolfson of Northwestern University advances his explanation: that they are led astray by the earth's fickle geology. According to a fairly well established theory, says Dr. Wolfson, the continents were once bunched together in two main masses: "Laurasia" (North America and Eurasia) and "Gondwana" (South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia), which were separated only by shallow seas (see map). During the Cretaceous period, 60 million years ago, both masses broke up and drifted slowly apart, their light granitic rocks floating on the heavy, plastic basalt that underlies both the oceans...
After World War I, Kohler taught at Northwestern University, left a lucrative private accounting practice to set up the books for the Tennessee Valley Authority. During World War II, he moved on to the War Production Board, moved again to the Petroleum Administration. He earned a reputation as a man who could talk down tough-talking Harold Ickes. Said one admirer: "He is hard to get along with. He is unreasonably honest...
...fact-finding board appointed by the President last January was beyond any laborman's reproach. Its members were fair-minded men, experienced mediators: Dr. William Leiserson, visiting professor of political economy at Johns Hopkins University; Professor William Willard Wirtz of Northwestern University Law School; Chief Justice George Edward Bushness of the Michigan supreme court. It was reasonable to expect that they would give all sides a fair hearing. They took 33 volumes of testimony. Then they recommended some rules changes and the same 15½? increase already accepted by the 19 other brotherhoods. Management accepted. The three brotherhoods defiantly...
Although he feels that it is only a mediocre substitute for Harvard, Lupien plans to rent a house off the Northwestern campus this summer in order: to "catch up on some culture...