Word: professors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Professor Birch's laboratory has become a center of research on the nature of the materials of the earth. He has delved into underground conditions of high temperature, chemical solutions, and earthquake wave motion...
August Leroy Strand is the president of Oregon State College in Corvallis, Oregon. He is an entomologist with some pretty definite ideas about "party liners" and their rights to teach. On January 14, 1949 Strand notified L. R. LaVallee, assistant professor of Economics, that he would not be reappointed. On February 8 he told Ralph Spitzer, associate professor of Chemistry, that he would not receive an appointment for the next academic year...
...Lorch, who obtained his Ph.D. in 1941, was offered several jobs on college faculties upon his release from the army in 1946. After he had been assured by Professor Maximillian Phillips, then chairman of the C.C.N.Y. Mathematics Department, that normally he would receive tenure after the required three years work, Lorch accepted the C.C.N.Y. position...
...December of 1948, Lorch was recommended for promotion to the position of assistant professor by a majority vote of the sixteen members of the mathematics department. This is highly unusual inasmuch as Lorch was not yet on tenure...
...this time Professor Phillips had died and Professor Hubert had become the chairman of the Mathematics department. At no time has either Hubert or any other university official given any reason for the dismissal of Lorch...