Word: professor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George A. Buttrick will retire in June as Preacher to the University and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals. He will devote his time to freelance preaching and writing, and has also been designated as the first American to serve as Harry Emerson Fosdick Visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary, New York...
Working with Dr. Peter Dubach, Douglas Pratt and C. M. Stewart, Professor Smith was studying the hibernating larvae of woodboring beetles (Melandrya striata), trying to isolate the enzymes that digest the cellulose on which the insects live. But when he ground up the larvae and analyzed the juice, he was surprised to find a considerable glycerol content. Since the active summer larvae do not contain glycerol, he guessed that the larvae possessed a mechanism that reacted to cold by producing glycerol to keep their tissues from freezing in the Minnesota winters...
...check his theory. Professor Smith experimented on black carpenter ants, which are easy to collect in quantity. Hibernating adult ants proved to have as much as 10% glycerol in their bodies, but when the ants were gradually warmed up and became active, all of it disappeared. Chilling the ants for a few days at a temperature just above the freezing point restored the glycerol again. Ants of the same species found in warmer Maryland had no glycerol in them. But when taken to Minnesota, they did as Minnesota ants do, secreting their personal antifreeze against the cold...
This year's 44 fellows are the cream of their trades. On hand is Political Scientist Benjamin Wright, former president of Smith College. From the University of Chicago comes Allison Davis, a distinguished Negro education professor. The other scholars include three psychiatrists and two law specialists. Their universities range from Texas and Harvard to Oxford and Amsterdam. From the University of Warsaw will come the first Iron Curtain visitor. Sociologist Stefan Nowakowski. And not least is Takdir Alisjahbana, celebrated philosopher of culture at Indonesia's National University, a gentle little man "wandering up and down the universe, shopping...
...Pantry Version. In 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, then head of the super-secret atomic bomb project at Los Alamos, testified to Army intelligence officers that in late '42 or early '43. Fellow Traveler Haakon Chevalier, at the time Assistant Professor of French at the University of California, sounded out three Los Alamos scientists with a view to transmitting atomic information to Russia. Later, Oppenheimer dubbed this testimony "a cock-and-bull story." His revised version: Chevalier was approached by a mutual friend and Soviet sympathizer, reported the matter to Oppenheimer, and both men agreed that the suggestion...