Word: victor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Victor F. Weisskopf, a theoretical physicist who worked on the team that built the first atomic bomb during World War II, and E. Bright Wilson, Richards Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, will also receive honorary degrees, at the culmination of this morning's portion of Harvard's 332nd Commencement exercises...
...Victor F. Weisskopf once said "Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman." Throughout his career as a prominent theoretical nuclear physicist, Weisskopf has sought to balance the exploding field of scientific knowledge with a basic sense of humanity...
...booming economy of 20 years ago, only about 500,000 students graduated from college annually. With national unemployment at just 5% or so, jobs for college grads were plentiful. This year, according to Victor Lindquist, co-author of Northwestern University's Endicott Study on College Placement, about one-third of the graduates will leave campus without jobs. Indeed, there has been an estimated 50% drop in offers made by employers since last year. At Indiana, for example, the administration estimates that fully half of its 7,000 graduates getting their bachelor's degrees will not have positions...
...Victor L. Negron...
...plot line is as simple as sin. Previously wed to each other, Amanda (Taylor) and Elyot (Burton) meet again on the terrace of a seaside resort in France. Each is on a second honeymoon with a fail-safe second mate. Amanda has chosen conventional, humdrum Victor (John Cullum), and Elyot has chosen humdrum, conventional Sibyl (Kathryn Walker). But Amanda and Elyot are blithe spirits: witty, sophisticated, selfish, mercurial. They skip off to Paris, make love again, tiff tempestuously again and, when discovered by the appalled Victor and Sibyl, steal off together again...