Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who thought he should have taken a bolder stand for principle and those who blamed him for allowing a Negro to get into the university in the first place. He began to receive anonymous phone calls accusing him of being a "nigger lover." Gradually, his trustees began to turn against him, and the strain became too much...
...Manhattan last week. Producer DeMille made a dramatic announcement: he will turn over all his own profits from the movie "for all time" to a special trust fund to be set up for "charitable, religious and educational purposes." Said he before a civic luncheon audience: "I believe deeply that the Ten Commandments given on Mount Sinai are not laws. They are the law . . . They are the charter and guide of human liberty . . . The struggle between the forces represented by Moses and those represented by Pharaoh is still being waged today. Are men free souls under God or are they...
...novel The Jungle, a trim little (5 ft. 4 in.) woman doctor named Alice Hamilton was living only five miles away in Hull House. Indiana-bred, raised in ease, and educated at Miss Porter's famed school at Farmington, Conn., Alice Hamilton was working at the turn of the century as a bacteriologist by day but did settlement work by night and on weekends. Thus she met countless victims of industrial hazards and eventually became the founder of industrial medicine...
Scientists at Barnes Engineering Co. have developed an automated lathe that obediently turns out a variety of parts by following the coded instructions printed on a tape, which in turn direct a servomechanism system. Says International Business Machines' Di rector of Applied Science Dr. Cuthbert C. Kurd: "If we don't have min iaturization, we'd soon have plants measuring ten miles by ten miles...
...material advantages of church membership. Labovitz says he was then called up by Edward R. Durgin, dean of students, and told that "if you don't like chapel, you shouldn't be at Brown." The Herald wrote an editorial criticizing various aspects of chapel, and they in turn were criticized. "I didn't feel that that was a very just move on the part of the University," William R. Bollow, editor of the Herald said afterward. "We went to see them and President Keeney spent half an hour bawling us out. He thought we were being irresponsible...