Word: professor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personality. Husky, bushy-haired, with a profile straight off an ancient Persian frieze, he looks like an Arabian king but talks like a professor of philosophy. His conversation, resounding and serious in any of four languages (Arabic, English, German, French), is punctuated methodically by the 1-2-3 and a-b-c of the lecturer. He is a Christian (Greek Orthodox), reads the Lord's Prayer and Creed regularly in Arabic at Sunday worship at his local church in Beirut, cons St. John Chrysostom for relaxation. His wife was formerly a teacher of literature at a Beirut women...
Academic Life. Graduating from the American University of Beirut in 1927, he taught math and physics there for two years. Inspired by a gift of Professor Alfred North Whitehead's Science and the Modern World, he worked for three years to raise enough money to get to Harvard and study under Whitehead himself. After getting his Ph.D., he taught philosophy at Beirut from 1937 to 1945. Said the great Whitehead: "One of those extraordinary individuals who had a kind of air of divinity about...
...price of the scroll, slightly more than $5,000, was paid by a prominent mining tycoon with a hankering for archaeology and a strong dislike of publicity. In the course of two lectures at All Souls last spring, Dr. Frank M. Cross Jr., Harvard's Hancock professor of Semitic languages and a leading member of the international team of scroll scholars that has been purchasing, patching and puzzling out the secrets of the scrolls since the Bedouins, first began to bring them in (TIME, April 15, 1957), told his audience that there were still fragments to be bought...
...Machines Corp., Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. and U.S. Steel, the physics course will feature topnotch scientists (first: Dr. James R. Killian Jr.. the President's special assistant for science and technology) as guest speakers, but its main lecturer will be Dr. Harvey E. White, University of California professor of physics. The first semester, "devoted to those aspects of physics necessary to an understanding of atomic and nuclear physics," will deal with kinematics, light, dynamics, electricity, magnetism. The second will emphasize atomic and nuclear physics...
...tankers of the future may be giant descendants of sausage skins. Two years ago Engineering Professor William Rede Hawthorne of Britain's Cambridge University got empty sausage skins from his butcher, filled them with alcohol, tied the ends and towed them in the laboratory's wave tank. The alcohol sausages rode the waves so valiantly that he got financial backing from Esso Petroleum Co., Ltd. to build and test good-sized flexible barges...