Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took us no more than the customary fifteen minutes to argue our way past the same ticket taker we had to argue our way past for the Annual Flower Show, The Annual Shoe Distributor's Exhibit, and the Annual Coin Collector's and Philatelist's Colloquium. The publicity agent however was a stranger-only the uniform looked familiar. His name was John Cotter and he were a double breasted pin striped number with a hand painted tie. His hat brim was turned...
Anthony G. Scott '50, Pollano's room-mate in Adams F-21 explained last night that he had never known Pollano to take pills of any sort. The night before his death, Pollano had been studying past midnight and apparently had taken the tablets while worried about exams and depressed by his failure to be accepted at a medical school...
Graham was originally blackballed by the AEC's Security Office because of his past association with "Communist front" groups. He had been active in many such organizations, most of which fought racial discrimination in the South and plugged for academic freedom. About two dozen of these appeared on Attorney-General Tom Clark's long list of groups attracting Communist sympathizers. By the Security Office's standards, these associations made Graham a dangerous risk in work involving classified information. The AEC disagreed; Graham was anti-communist and the commission knew it. In reversing the Security Office it stated that Graham...
...Graham's case, such "evidence" was so obviously misleading that the AEC eventually ignored it as inconclusive. With less well-known people, on the Navy Yard draftsman or Oak Ridge chemist level, it is still damning. It would undoubtedly require a lot more work to dig down well past a man's clubs and organizations and friends and find out if he is a Communist or not. But this work is essential. Otherwise we are going to lose a lot of very good men like Frank Graham; some will be turned dow, some will refuse to work under an implied...
...Since it has not been our practice to keep club lists in the past," Dean Sherman said yesterday, "agreeing to destroy them represents no radical change from our previous policy...