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Word: palmer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stuff at CalTech, which has always gone in for rough and noisy engineering. But until World War II, Princeton's academic calm was almost unbroken. Toward war's end it went jet with a bang. The screaming roar of rockets and ramjets in the laboratory behind Palmer Stadium outshouted the football enthusiasts. Already the staff of the psychology department laboratory, next door, has decided to move to a quieter spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: For Hypersonics | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...Dean under vigorous questioning. For one thing, they failed to challenge Bender's statement that the University could not afford to spend &5,000 for a food investigation. They might have pointed out--but they didn't-- that Harvard was able to lay out &75,000 to move Dana Palmer House across Quincy Street board by board. They did mention that the University has shown a &90,000 profit on the dining halls during the first two post-war years. But they might have taken issue with the Dean's statement that every penny of this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Food Problem III: | 12/17/1948 | See Source »

...complained as much about Harvard and "the taste of academic straw" as Adams did.. There was Barrett Wendell, who looked as if he might have stepped out of the court of Queen Elizabeth; pudgy Josiah Royce ("the Rubens of Philosophy," William James called him); and Philosopher George Herbert Palmer, who once told a student: "It will hurt nothing at your age to have a nervous breakdown. As a matter of fact, I sometimes think it would be a good thing . . ." And there was Charles Eliot Norton, the unappeasable pursuer of beauty. After his death, students guessed that he, would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Shining Faces | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Dave McGiffert and Ted Bullard at the forward posts will carry Eliot wherever it goes this season, although a fairly tall opening aggregation will help to keep the Elephant head above water. The starting five will probably consist of these two, and Bob Crichton, Fred England, and John Palmer...

Author: By Jack Spbatte, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/9/1948 | See Source »

...touchdown on the first play from scrimmage Saturday against Yale. It was the third long touchdown run the Moff has turned in this fall. He ran 89 yards against Holy Cross on a punt return, and galloped 76 yards for the Crimson's lone score against Princeton in Palmer Stadium...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: End of Seven Lean Seasons | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

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