Word: smiths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...person complained, apparently because of a postscript in which Smith offered membership forms for the Veterans of Foreign Wars. What he did was illegal, and superiors warned that he could be fined $300. Smith has offered to pay $60 in postage to end the matter. Meanwhile, he is obeying the law and making sure that others do so too: he is removing all papers that other people, including politicians, place in mailboxes without postage...
...rate colleges Did you know that the University of Cincinnati has more social prestige than Sarah Lawrence, Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr? Or that the quality of the faculty at Kutztown State College in Kutztown, Pa., is higher than at Smith, Oberlin and Yale? These are just a few of the amazing aperçus served up in a new $7.95 guide to U.S. colleges published last month by the New American Library and prepared by veteran Guide Author Gene R. Hawes. Billed as "A New Kind of College Guide that Reports on What You Want to Know Most-and First...
Then there is the question of faculty quality. Hawes offers a ranking of average or median academic salaries, "one very basic indicator of the college's academic quality." On this novel scale, Kutztown's median of $21,600 lords it over Oberlin's $16,700, Smith's $17,500 and Yale's $20,000. Harvard is second in faculty "quality," since it pays a median salary of $27,200, while the California Institute of Technology is third, with $25,700. No. 1 is the University of Alaska, which pays top intellectual dollar, an average...
...Douglas explained, Sollas was a pillar of British science in the early 1900s, but his position was being increasingly challenged by a rising young star in anthropology, Arthur Smith Woodward. Indeed, at one scientific meeting of the Geological Society, Smith Woodward actually derided a presentation made by the older man. Recalled Douglas, who was present at that almost forgotten confrontation: "Sollas said nothing at all', but I could see he was absolutely livid...
Sollas apparently decided to strike back by playing on Smith Woodward's credulity; he showed a tendency to accept purported new scientific findings as fact before they were rigorously proved. The ploy worked. Shortly after the planted Piltdown remains were found, Smith Woodward enthusiastically staked his reputation on the authenticity of the find. In fact, in a painting that still hangs in the Geological Society's London headquarters, Smith Woodward is one of several eminent scientists shown intensively examining the supposedly precious skull. What is more, he is pictured right next to its "discoverer," an amateur fossil hunter...