Word: scots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Forest invented the vacuum tube-a milestone for television as well as for radio. In 1923 a Russian immigrant, Dr. Vladimir K. Zworykin (now an RCA engineer) patented the iconoscope-the tube that changed television from a somewhat mechanical to a purely electronic science. In 1928, a Scot, John Logie Baird, telecast a woman's face from London to the S.S. Berengaria, 1,000 miles out at sea, and in the U.S. fuzzy facsimiles of Felix the Cat were televised. Three years later, in a Montclair, N.J. basement, Dr. Allen B. Du Mont brought forth a workable television receiver...
...Thorndike and Bob Forsyth can shut out Scot Johnson for second and third in the hammer. If Lockett, Lawrence, and Torrey can outvault the equally-good trio of Eustis, Bensley, and Larsen. If high-jumpers Gene Harrigan and Mary Jenkins can stay up there with Jim Keyes. If Sam Felton can split Frank and Bowers in the discus. If Thayer, Kumple, and Carter can beat Yale's brilliant but erratic broad-jumper Nathan Bundy (he hit 23 feet, 6 inches last week against Princeton). If sore-armed Don Trimble can take at least one javelin throw to prevent the Elis...
...Last week, after four months of testimony, a U.S. tribunal acquitted them of the charge.* The tribunal did not say why, but apparently it thought that businessmen could not be blamed for carrying out orders from political leaders. That did not mean that the Krupp officials would get off scot free. They still had to face trial on charges of looting industries in occupied countries and exploiting the slave labor which they employed in their plants...
Retiring executives include R. Scot Leavitt '46, President; J. Anthony Lewis '48, Managing Editor; Robert S. Laventhal '48, Business Manager; Waldo Profit, Jr. '46, Editorial Chairman; Shane E. Riorden '46, Executive Editor; Ernest I. Bell '49, Photographic Chairman and Myron Stein '46, Advertising Manager...
...custom for a Scot to carry his heart on his sleeve," one letter said. "Rather would he say everything is all right, and that he is going along fine than solicit help. It's not the value of the magnificent gifts you have shipped from Boston. That is great, But more valuable still is the spirit which prompted it, and my poor words cannot adequately express my personal thanks...