Word: piercee
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Clarence I. Lewis '06, one of the fore-most American philosophers of the twentieth century, died early yesterday at his home in Menlo Park, California. Lewis, 80 years old at his death, was Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy until his retirement from the Harvard faculty in 1953.
The other Senior Fellows are Walter Jackson Bate '39, Lowell Professor of the Humanities, Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, Paul M. Doty, professor of Chemistry, Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Leo Professor of Economics, Harry Levis '33, Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, physicist Edward M. Purcell...
B.F. Skinner, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, will receive in July a five-year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, allowing him to concentrate effort on a new book, "Design of Culture." The Institute will give the University funds each year equivalent to Skinner's present salary and...
His widow had a huge boulder set near his grave. On it, a brass plaque is inscribed with the signature that finished his works. His top price while alive, $10,000, soared ten times higher. Imitators flooded the art market with works that drooled more like a hungry walrus than...
Leavitt and Pierce and the Coop reported a slight drop in cigarette sales and a considerable rise in pipe and tobacco purchases. But the saleswoman in the Coop was skeptical. "Cigarettes will keep going down for a white--then sales will shoot right back up," she said. "That's what...