Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Observers, long expecting this move, saw its beginning last week in Illinois, where three Lewis sub-chieftains suddenly withdrew from the State's federation of C.I.O. unions. One of them was Ray Edmundson, C.I.O. regional director, who declared: "Hereafter I shall devote every ounce of energy at my command [to] . . . Lewis, whom I consider one of the greatest labor leaders of all time...
...save Superman from this dilemma, plump, 27-year-old Superscriptman Jerry Siegel patched up a makeshift solution after Pearl Harbor. Superman, rejected for enlistment when his X-ray eyes inadvertently read the chart in the next room, set out to serve his country as No. 1 spycatcher. "Of course," says Ideaman Siegel, who admits that Superman frightens even him sometimes, "if a sub comes to our shores and shells the U.S. we might have him take time out and administer the proper punishment...
Those receiving the awards were Hugh C. Cutler, research associate in the Botanical Museum, Richard E. Schultes '37, research associate in the Botanical Museum, Lloyd A. Metzler, instructor in Economic, Gordon N. Ray, instructor in English, Marck Schorer, Briggs-Copeland Faculty Instructor in English Composition, Rolf Singer, research associate in Mycology, and Otto Benesch, research fellow and special lecturer at Wellesley College...
...Guggenheim Fellowships, usually amounting to $2,500 for a year, are granted to research workers, scholars, artists and others who have shown outstanding ability in their fields. Since its establishment 17 years ago the Foundation has granted 1,210 Fellowships with awards totalling $2,488,000. Ray and Schorer have both been awarded Fellowships before...
Stanford's shrewd President Ray Lyman Wilbur and his trustees were not born yesterday: they know how to take advantage of a trend by going against it. Last week, as liberal arts colleges all over the nation rushed to accelerate the arts of war (mathematics and science). President Wilbur & trustees announced that Stanford, which has never had a liberal arts college, will start one next fall...