Word: tailored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Isidor Isaac Rabi, 59, shy, good-humored Columbia University professor of physics is chairman of the President's Scientific Advisory Committee. The Austrian-born son of a tailor, he was brought to the U.S. as an infant. In 1944 he won the Nobel Prize for discovering a new method of measuring and studying the magnetic properties of the atomic nucleus. "Some people," he says, "turn to science as a career to make a living, others because somebody they admire tremendously is a scientist. And then there are those who just can't help it-like me. I knocked...
...Advanced Standing Program's chief virtue consists of permitting the well qualified student to tailor himself a more challenging program by modifying or eliminating course requirements. While the student who achieves advanced placement in three courses is given sophomore standing and need take only one of three lower level general education courses, the student with two advanced placement credits is considered only a well prepared freshman and cannot reduce his general education requirements...
...Foghorn Voice." Murrow, who lives on Park Avenue and gets his suits from a Savile Row tailor, started out, on April 25, 1908, named Egbert, the son of a tenant farmer, in a log-slab house near Pole Cat Creek in North Carolina's Guilford County, twelve miles south of Greensboro. He was the youngest of Ethel and Roscoe Murrow's three boys. The eldest, Lacy, rose to be an Air Force brigadier general in the 18th Tactical Air Command, and is now a transportation consultant in Washington. The other, Dewey, is a contractor in Spokane...
...serene, twinkle-eyed little Bostonian, Lincoln Filene was already busily at work in a haberdashery founded by his father, a Prussian immigrant tailor, by the time he was ten, and he never had another job. In 1891 he took over the business with his brother, and promptly set out to prove a new idea for U.S. retailers. "If we were to create contentment in front of the counter," he said, "we had first to create contentment behind...
...their fight to cut foreign-aid appropriations. House Democrats put on a cloak that was tailor-made for their uncomfortable posture. As onetime champions of mutual assistance and onetime foes of isolationism, they could not use the well-worn cry-"Why pour good U.S. dollars down foreign ratholes?''-against the principle involved...