Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second year just as impressive. Harvard was again represented by Professor Leontief, and Talcott Parsons, professor of sociology, made his first trip to the Seminar. In gener- al, however, the teaching staff was more broadly representative of the United States than in the first year. Professor Henry Nash Smith of the University of Minnesota was chosen as Executive Director and lectured at Salzburg on the for tan lectured at Salzburg on the impact of thew West in American Though...
Widespread liquor sales to college students under 21 have resulted in a letter of protest to all Western Massachusetts package stores signed jointly by four college presidents. Stressing "the multitude of problems which the unrestricted use of alcoholic beverages brings to every campus," the heads of Smith, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, and the University of Massachusetts asked for full cooperation in keeping liquor away from minors...
...tour was part of an investment course for women thought up by Ferdinand C. Smith, resident partner of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, biggest U.S. brokerage house. "Ferd" Smith's office staff pooh-poohed the idea at first, but Smith argued that women, besides doing most of the spending in the U.S., have also become important owners of U.S. business. In many big corporations (U.S. Steel, General Motors, A.T. & T., etc.) women stockholders outnumber men. And sooner or later, most women have to take on the job of managing their husbands' estates. Yet few women are trained...
...first session, Smith hired a hall that would seat 50, but when applicants besieged him with calls, he hastily switched to the 550-seat Women's City Club auditorium. The women all but broke down the doors; 300 without tickets were turned away. Few of the 583 registrants missed a session; bankers and corporation heads began to clamor to get on the list of guest lecturers. Last week Smith had 1,100 women on the waiting list for his second course, to start in a few weeks...
Graduate students Herbert Dick, of Albuquerque, and C. Earle Smith, of St. Petersburg, Florida, went to New Mexico last summer with the Peabody Museum expedition to locate traces of early American man in the Upper Gila River area. They didn't find what they were looking for. But the two University scientists did stumble across something which has puzzled botanists for four centuries. They discovered the missing link in the corn kingdom-cobs and pieces of corn that are both the oldest and most primitive known to modern...