Word: professors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hiss had been a member of the Harvard Law Review, Justice Frankfurter told Lawyer Stryker. Yes, members of the Review were certainly young men of "intelligence, character and ability." In 1929, Harvard Professor Frankfurter had picked Hiss to serve as law clerk for the late great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...University of California's Waldemar Christian Westergaard, 67, authority on Scandinavian history (Denmark and Slesvig, 1848-1864; The First Triple Alliance). Plump, pleasant Professor Westergaard long ago gave up classroom seminars ("hard seats don't mean hard heads"), preferred to teach in his own library, smoking a four-foot-long Danish pipe...
...British missionary, he was born in Madagascar, went to Oxford, taught in Germany, was drafted into the German army in World War I, was captured by the Russians, escaped to edit a newspaper in Peking, finally got to Michigan in 1929. Through 20 years' teaching Professor Price never got over the wonders of Shakespeare, could hardly read a line without striding about the classroom and thundering at his students: "It's beautiful...
...Slums. This week, in the second installment, Professor Barrois gets down to specifics on the differences between the churches. "We had better recognize the fact that we are divided on matters of faith and life, which we cannot disregard," he says. In the first place, "the Roman
...along its way back to a normal route had the U.S. traveled? Harvard Marketing Professor Malcolm P. McNair squinted at the scenery and announced that one-third to one-half the trip had been completed. He guessed the index of industrial production, now around 175, would drop to about 155 before starting up again. The rest of the ride should not be "too severe," said McNair, certainly "less severe" than...