Word: posting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...M.I.T. Public Relations Office said, however, that Killian was resigning to devote full time to his new post of Chairman of the Corporation. When Killian was elected to the position last December, former Chairman Vannevar Bush emphasibed the "urgent need of Dr. Killian to assume his new duties at the earliest possible date...
Contacted by telephone at her home in New Jersey, Mrs. Bunting was similarly non-commital. She did say that she knew she had been "considered" for the post--"along with a good many other people...
...that of neutralization: Germany could have complete sovereignty except in the making of military alliances, and foreign troops would not be allowed on German soil. This plan should certainly appeal to the West: militarily, Germany would be willing and able to defend itself; politically and economically, the extremely hopeful post-war developments of the Franco-German rapprochement and the European Common Market could be preserved; Germany, legally forbidden to enter NATO, would be none-the less committed in principle to the Western point-of-view...
...Simpson was chosen for his new post by fellow dons and canons, approved by Queen Elizabeth and Prime Minister Macmillan. He is not the first American to head a top English college; Manhattan-born Dr. Arthur L. Goodhart became master of Oxford's University College...
...centuries, Newton's law of gravity brought the exhilarating unity of a conductor's baton. The music of the spheres, in which the ancients believed literally, at last existed symbolically in the harmony of a Newtonian universe under the common rule of certain natural laws. But the post-Newtonian universe has again become something of a mystery, notes Koestler. He quotes the late Sir James Jeans, who suggested that "the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine...