Word: tizard
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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...order for America. No one claimed that all the tasks could be earned out. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the convocation was that it heard no boosters of the 20th Century's high towers and great deeds. Yet a quiet optimism persisted. British Scientist Sir Henry Tizard, quoting the remark a school friend once made to Samuel Johnson, summed up the spirit of the conference: "I too have tried to be a philosopher; but I don't know how, cheerfulness kept breaking...
...increasing population--was expressed by a panel manned by Vannevar Bush, president of Carnegie Institution of Washington, Frank W. Notestein, director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton, Fairfield Osborne, president of the Conservation Foundation, Robert P. Russell, director of the International Basic Economy Corporation, and Sir Henry Tizard, British production expert...