Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practical [flying] machine seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration of any physical fact to be," one scientist wrote about the turn of the century. One week before the Wright brothers took off at Kitty Hawk, the New York Times editorially advised Samuel Langley, one of the Wright brothers' chief competitors, to turn his talents to ''more useful employment...
Labor representatives at Wednesday's meeting included Leonard Woodcock, president of the UAW; Harold Gibbons, international vice president of the Teamsters; Howard Samuel, of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (AFL-CIO); James Matles, of the United Electrical Workers; and John Hein, assistant to the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers...
...string. He even acted out pushing a wet string on the table. He told the accused girl to have patience, be reasonable, keep trying. Two days later, the Committee informed the same girl that non-violently standing on the steps of University Hall with 150 other people while Samuel R. Williamson tried to get into his office had earned her a suspended requirement to withdraw. It seems that a wet string can move very fast sometimes...
This was not really a hearing, it was a processing. The prosecution's only evidence, a photograph, showed the girl standing on the steps of University Hall with approximately 100 others while Samuel Williamson, Assistant to Dean May, had tried to get into his office. The girl's boyfriend, who was also her advisor, was arguing the case. He was standing next to her in the photograph the prosecution had presented but no one mentioned this. She was on trial, not him. She had been identified in the photo by her dean, he had not. These unusual circumstances were...
Modern weaponry has become immensely complex. Yet, according to Just, many of the generals seem to be preoccupied with the unlikely possibility that the next war will be a happily orthodox crunch against the mechanized Soviet army on the plains of Europe. Brigadier General Samuel V. Wilson has been wrestling with the Army's role, and he confesses: "We haven't learned how to wage that which will be the most likely form of war in the coming decades"-the Viet Nam-style actions that he studiedly calls "low-intensity warfare...