Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...followed in 1957 by a doctorate for Lady Barbara Ward Jackson. Last year, both Nadia Boulanger (Mus. D.) and Eleanor Glueck (S.D.) were honored. These recent awards silenced many criticisms of the "discriminatory" system followed before 1955. By making Harvard honoraries open to both sexes, the Corporation continued the process of liberalization of degrees that started with John Winthrop and his 1773 LL.D...
...says Halleck, "am a gut fighter." Praise from the Top. As one of the roughest, most highly skilled infighters in U.S. politics, Republican Halleck, in less than six months as the House minority leader, has given his party its most effective legislative leadership in years, and in the process spotlighted one of the most professional of personalities among the battle-scarred old pros in Congress...
Diplomatic authorities said the President made it clear to American, British, French, and Soviet foreign ministers he feels that each new step in the negotiating process must be justified by some progress being achieved in the preceding stage...
...more are almost realy for the printer. Wolfson writes all his manuscripts out in longhand ("I'm old fashioned") and then puts them away in the huge file cabinets that adorn his study. When the rough draft of the entire series was written, Wolfson began the slow process of revising each manuscript, some of which he claims not to have looked at in over ten years. But all the rough drafts will eventually be reworked and published...
...M.I.T. ('36) for his degree in engineering. After several years at other companies, he arrived at Pontiac, as a menial "tool chaser." He tried everything, just so it added another bit of experience: defense plant chief inspector, car-assem bly superintendent, assistant master mechanic, boss of a new "process develop-ment" section searching to make prod- ucts more efficiently. Says Knudsen: "As long as you're interested enough to take any job that comes along, you'll find something worthwhile to do, and it usually turns out to be a better job than the last...