Word: profs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your writer's statements I must take exception. He says that I "befriended" the late Prof. Archibald Cary Coolidge at the Paris Peace Conference. Unfortunately, at that time I was not in a position to befriend anybody, and least of all Prof. Coolidge who was my senior in years and experience, a scholar of international reputation, and one of the chief American experts at the Peace Conference. Of course, it was the other way around. Michael Karpovich...
...white and blue bunting) a WPA brass band trumpeted God Bless America, while museum attendance jumped from 75 to 400 daily. Detroit's sedate Institute of Arts put on a price-marked display of Grand Rapids furniture. In Lewisburg, Pa. pastors of all denominations and an esthete named Prof. B. Gummo sermonized and lectured on "What is Art?" In Chicago a streamlined sound truck of abstract design toured the Loop enthusiastically wailing plugs for Art Week. On nearby sidewalks pretty models paraded with paintings stuck to them like sandwich boards. In Rochester the art show in the Civic Exhibits...
Aiming their new warlike instrument at the sun from the Harvard station in Climax, Colorado, Donald H. Menzel, Prof. of Astrophysics and his assistant Walter Roberts, a graduate student in Astronomy, are shown above. This new station is the most recent addition to the ever expanding horizons of Dr. Shapley's world famous observatory on Garden St., here in Cambridge. The instrument embodies the most recent developments in optics including the new "invisible glass" coating which was developed by Dr. C. H. Cartwright at M. I. T. It will study the mysterious solar corona and prominences, upheavals of which occasionally...
...well, no understanding professor would expect a red-blooded Vag to respond to the charms of Malthus on a big day like this. Besides, he probably wasn't missed. He was sure he would have added nothing to Malthus's wisdom; not quite so sure his prof. was "understanding." Enough of that, this waiting was giving him the jitters...
...Alexander Lindemann, a tall, ascetic Oxford vegetarian who often works until 4 a.m. at a laboratory in the Admiralty (given him by Churchill when First Lord last year), is credited with discovering the secrets of German magnetic mines and how to beat them. Dr. Lindemann, whose friends call him "Prof," was a pioneer advocate of the present London balloon barrage, years ago vainly urged the Air Ministry to build fleets of robot planes which would be sent up by radio control to crash head-on into enemy bombers...