Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chilly morning last week, Vincent J. Schaefer of General Electric climbed into a light plane at Schenectady's airport. While his boss, Nobel Prizewinner Irving Langmuir, watched from a control tower, Schaefer told the pilot to fly to a cloud 50 miles away...
...blue-green mold, Penicillium notatum, which excretes penicillin, has a laboratory rival. Last week a biochemical team led by Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical...
Many a campus monthly pointed with pride to famed alumni (but few of the famed alumni point with pride to their campus work). Princeton's Tiger boasts of names like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Booth Tarkington, Whitney Darrow Jr. The Yale Record printed Lucius Beebe, Stephen Vincent Benet and Peter Arno. Milton Caniff was art editor of the Ohio State Sundial. John P. Marquand, Gluyas Williams and the late Robert Benchley began on the Harvard Lampoon...
...Herbert R. Fritts '47; Peter Garland '45 ocC; David L. Groshong '49; John E. Harrigan '49; Peter G. Harwood '48; Francis B. Haydock '46; John G. Holbrook '49; Thomas P. Howard '48; John C. Hunter '46, Captain; William J. Jackson, 2nd '47; Edward W. Lewis, Jr. '49; Vincent C. Moriarty '47; Bernard J. O'Brien '47; Leopold M. Page, Jr. '47; Douglas D. Pirnie '43 ocC; Owen C. Torrey, Jr. '47; Edward L. Wyman '48; Bradford Perkins '46, Manager...
...Since Vincent Sheean's immensely successful Personal History in 1935, neither he nor many of his successors has succeeded notably with that difficult formula: the journalistic catchall which mixes autobiographical adventure, eyewitnessing of disaster, punditry, prophecy and philosophy. Some have seemed too wise after the event; many have not seemed wise enough before it. Drew Middleton's Our Share of Night is a welcome exception. It is written with rare honesty and simplicity. Best of all is his reason for writing, stated not in a self-conscious foreword but in the last sentence of the book: "Now perhaps...