Word: professors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zechariah Chafee, Jr., Langdell Professor of Law, will speak instead on "Freedom and Fear...
Appointment of Adams was announced by the president of Colorado College at Saturday's graduation exercises. Adams here yesterday confirmed his acceptance of the dean's chair, which has been vacant for almost a year. At Colorado Adams will also be a professor of History...
Adams received his M.A. in 1928 and Ph.D. in 1946, both at Harvard, after graduating from Illinois in 1927. Before entering the Navy he served as a history professor at Lake Forrest College in Illinois. At Harvard Adams gave several lectures in History 5b, now History...
...wartime Germany few names were more esteemed than that of Willy Messerschmitt, Germany's brightest plane designer. When Hermann Goring used to bellow for more fighters, fighters, fighters, it was "Professor" Messerschmitt who turned them out. Allied pilots paid Willy the highest compliment: when one of them began to jerk his head around nervously they called it "the Messerschmitt twitch...
...them he was a scholarly squire, always ready with a merry bit of gossip, and a fresh flower in his buttonhole. To his mathematics students, he was not always so charming. He could tease or taunt them until some fled in terror. But those who stayed never forgot Professor Henderson, pacing back & forth before them, mixing Homer and Milton with his math...