Word: petered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally, according to Peter D. Schultz '52, Secretary of the Alumni Association, "The dollar sign does loom pretty big." The Alumni Association, through the Harvard Fund Council, headed by poet David T.W. McCord '21, tries to encourage the "habit of annual giving...
Initiatates from Winthrop are Peter B. Edelman, David B. Haley, Ralph A. Lehman, Jerome A. Rabrow, Cyril V. Smith Jr., Sereno S. Streeter...
Viruses & Reflexes. Before the reign of Peter the Great, who founded the Imperial Academy in 1724, Russia's cultural life lay smothering under a blanket of religious orthodoxy that considered everything non-Russian as heresy and the work of such men as Copernicus as "the craft of the Devil.'' The first academicians were mostly from the West, but whether Russian or not, they soon acquired the special place in society that they hold today. Though a practical man, Czar Peter fully realized the value of research that might not bring immediate benefits. As a result, from...
...simply ignored her. The party denounced the Einstein theory, the Copenhagen school of quantum mechanics, and cybernetics as "idealistic." But the scientists used the work of Einstein and Bohr to develop Russia's atomic bomb, and the Soviet began turning out calculators as fast as it could. Physicist Peter Kapitsa, who was placed under arrest for refusing to work on the atom bomb, is now back in favor and heads a research institute...
...asked if he might bring along a friend. The friend, though billed as a fellow scientist, seemed to Landau's hosts to be more of a political chaperon. Freedom, it seems, can still ebb and flow like the tide, and latterly it seems to be ebbing again. Reported Peter Scheivert, professor of Slavic history at the University of Cologne after his latest visit to Moscow: "Six months ago my Russian university friends used to come to my hotel to chat. This time not one of them dared visit me there...