Word: petry
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Freshman Council has invited Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan to speak at the University, Chairman Thomas E. Petri '62 announced yesterday. The Council telephoned the invitation to the Russian Consulate in Washington Friday...
Thomas E. Petri, President of the Union Committee, stressed that the only importance of the new name "is that it reflects the new, more representative role we now play in the Freshman class...
Thomas E. Petri of Fond du Lac, Wisc. and Matthews Hall was elected President of the Harvard Freshman Union Committee last night. Richard Crystal was elected vice-President and treasurer and Peter A. Beinstalk was elected Secretary. Student Council representatives are Mahamoud M. Shabander, John J. Harris, Harry M. Lindquist, and Howard J. Phillips...
...defective molds, each needing some extra nutrient or having some other gene-controlled chemical ailment. In a few years their imitators filled their own laboratories with molds as unnatural as the most monstrous fruit flies. The coral fluffs of normal Neurospora are rare in the test tubes and Petri dishes. In their place are blackish warts, lichenlike incrustations, or sick-looking globules. One horrible kind of mold grown in a moving liquid floats in bunches with limp limbs like soft, dead crabs...
...Hofmann granted the four-year-old 20 precious minutes. Amazed, he listened to her for two hours, then got her a scholarship to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, offering to teach her himself. Later she was sent abroad to study and took lessons (all free) from Egon Petri, Artur Schnabel, Alfred Cortot, Wilhelm Backhaus. Said Sergei Rachmaninoff: "In one year you will be magnificent. In two years you will be unbelievable . . . Would you like some cookies...