Word: techs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite so heavily sentimental as an old college athlete, especially an old footballer. To Manhattan's Dean Hill (Georgia Tech '12), football is the old-time religion. He helped found New York's Touchdown Club to foster good-fellowship among Varsity lettermen, takes flying tackles at journalists who refer to an "All-American" instead of an "All-America" footballer. For 13 years Dean Hill has rummaged through old bookstores and trunks, clipped yellowed papers and magazines, assembled one of the world's finest collections of footballiana...
...Lawrence Wood Robert Jr. was a Monticello, Ga. boy who studied at Georgia Tech, became a construction engineer. Always known as "Chip" Robert (because his father was "Wood" Robert), he set up his own firm in 1917, devoted himself to the task of industrializing the South. In the 23 years since then, Robert & Co. has done over $500,000,000 worth of business, designing textile mills and schools, putting up public buildings...
...Research Laboratory Director William David Coolidge, Dean Frederick M. Feiker of George Washington University School of Engineering, Manhattan Patent Lawyer (and Theatre Guild director) Lawrence Langner, Ethyl Gasoline Corp.'s Vice President Thomas Midgley, Director Watson Davis of Science Service, Engineering Dean Webster N. Jones of Carnegie Tech, U. S. Patent Commissioner Conway Coe. Absent from the first meeting were Industrialist George Baekeland (Bakelite Corp.) and Dr. Orville Wright, once rated a crackpot tried & true...
...Scientific Workers-among them University of Chicago's famed Professors Arthur Compton and Anton Carlson-petitioned President Roosevelt to keep the U. S. out of war. To the President promptly went counter-petitions, urging help to the Allies, from Albert Einstein, scientists at Princeton, Harvard and California Tech...
Syracuse did poorly at Derby Day last Saturday, when it finished third behind M.I.T. and Yale. Perhaps the Orange sweepswingers were overconfident after their excellent showing in Cambridge by beating Tech when they had had so little practice...