Word: probers
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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...relentless prober, tough as a drill sergeant with philosophy students, a hollow-cheeked scholar who despised automobiles and movies (the only movie he ever saw was a documentary on the theory of relativity). But hundreds of students flocked to his classroom to join his lifelong search for truth. Where did the search lead him? This week, a year after his death, Morris Cohen gave his answer in the form of a posthumously published autobiography, A Dreamer's Journey (Beacon Press...
...convinced many that not only the charges themselves but the motives behind them were suspect. These attacks were carried out through the agency of two Boston newspapers, and the two men who had been investigating the Reformatory last year were mysteriously tied up with the papers. One "prober" was McDowell's deputy, Frank Dwyer. The other was State Senator Michael LoPresti, who had touched off the whole affair back...