Word: sheldon
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University President Sheldon Hackney and 21 other University officials issued a strongly-worded condemnation of racial threats on October 26. "I'm really at a loss to explain how this kind of behavior can be here at this time," Hackney said, adding, "I think it is something that those of us who are white should begin to take action against...
...subjects of the Vaillants' study have been surveyed periodically since 1940, when Harvard law professor Sheldon Glueck and his wife, Eleanor, studied 456 working-class males between the ages 11 and 16 to determine the causes of juvenile delinquency...
Instructor Sheldon L. Glashow, Higgins Professor's of Physics, attributed the popularity of his course (and "the presence of the football team") to his 1980 Nobel Prize of Physics, and the legendary 1.7 workload rating by the Curriculum Evaluation Guide...
...hands: four to acquit, two to convict, six undecided. The store manager suggested that they all write out their reasons on a blackboard. One by one, they stood up and explained their votes. "I kept hearing 'Beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond a reasonable doubt,' " said Suzanne Sheldon, the writer, who had originally voted for conviction. "And I kept seeing that kid Charles looking up at me from the defendant's table with his big blue eyes. It tore me apart." The jurors sent out for sandwiches, and took a written ballot at 8:30 p.m. No more...
DIED. Charles S. Sheldon II, 64, former chief of the Science Policy Research Division of the Library of Congress who over the past two decades ranked as perhaps the nation's leading authority on the Soviet space effort; of cancer; in Arlington...