Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem of coordinating the art of architecture with the science of engineering. TVA has kept anonymous its thousands of artistic-minded engineers and efficient-minded designers. But the main responsibility for coordinating the true and the beautiful in TVA has been two men's: Chief Engineer Theodore Bissell Parker, Reserve Lieut. Colonel (Engineers), and Principal Architect Roland Anthony Wank...
Award of three Parker fellowships in Harvard University totalling $3,600 for the next academic year was announced today. The winners of the stipends, awarded to students working in the natural sciences, are: Leland E. Cunningham 2G, of Cambridge, Mass., in Astronomy; Robert Galambos, Teaching Fellow in Biology at Harvard, in Biology; and Harry Pollard 2G, of Dorchester, Mass., in Mathematics...
...city holding the record for censorship, the Transcript fought Prohibition, reported the Thaw case in "blunt, ugly words which pseudo-fastidious contemporaries mincingly blue-penciled." Famed for his acid if polished gusto was the Transcript's music and drama critic, the late H. T. ("Hell-to-Pay") Parker. But it was rumored that he wrote his first drafts in Latin...
...newsstands went 80,000 copies (10? a copy); to subscribers went 37,000 annual subscriptions ($1 a year), about half of them donated by good-neighborly U.S. readers. Included were 32 pages of ads-first in Reader's Digest-by such firms as Gillette Razor, General Motors, Parker Pen, Kellogg's Corn Flakes, big oil companies...
Professor Henry Steele Commager, of Columbia University, will give the annual address of the Association, which this year will celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the famous sermon on "The Transient and the Permanent in Christianity" given in Boston May 19, 1841 by the Rev. Mr. Theodore Parker, one of the most famous graduates of the Harvard Divinity School. Professor Commager's title will be, "The Implications of Transcendentalism Today...