Word: victor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lone varsity victor was number six man Alan Steinert, who defeated his opponent handily, 5 and 4. At number one, Bill McAllister dropped a closely contested match, 2 to 1, to Pordy Pitts...
...Victor F. Weisskopf, Morris Loeb Lecturer in Physics and professor of physics at M.I.T., revealed last night that he will participate in a conference on high-energy physics in Moscow from...
There were immediate and powerful pressures on President Eisenhower to sign the bill. Four Republican governors from the farm belt (Iowa's Leo A. Hoegh, Kansas' Fred Hall, Nebraska's Victor E. Anderson and South Dakota's Joe Foss) got an appointment for this week at the White House to urge a signature. The 15 Republican Senators who voted for the bill, led by Kansas' Andrew Schoeppel, also wanted to present their case directly to the President. For the most part, the argument of these Republicans was that, politically and economically, a bad bill...
...Foucauld (TIME, May 4, 1953), grew to man's estate in a manner far from saintly. Born in Strasbourg in 1858 to a rich, aristocratic family, young Foucauld awed his classmates at St. Cyr and at cavalry school with his man-of-the-worldly ways. Wrote future General Victor d'Urbal: "Anyone who has not seen Foucauld in his room, in white flannel pajamas, comfortably ensconced on a chaise longue or a fine armchair, eating delicious foie gras washed down with an excellent cham pagne, reading Aristophanes in a de luxe edition . . . cannot form a proper idea...
...look at science only in terms of technical applications, we entirely miss the point," Victor F. Weisskopf, visiting lecturer in Physics, said last night. He claimed that people today tend to think of the scientist as a machine-man for making bombs, and in doing this, they lose the value of pure science...