Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shall be remembered," Chauncey Tinker once remarked with a wave of his hand, "for my students. These are my jewels." Last week, four years after his retirement from teaching, old (72) Professor Tinker knew just how rich in jewels he was. Thirty-seven of them, who had gone on to become professors themselves, had written a book in his honor and handed it to him at a dinner. Appropriately, the book was a collection of their own scholarly essays on Tinker's Century. The title, affectionately lifted from Tink's old course, was The Age of Johnson (Yale...
...work in the ionosphere ties in with the research of Professor Harry R. Mimno. Mimno is sending short-wave radio beams into the sky, to study how they bounce off the upper layers of the air. What he finds may change the future of radio transmission...
Navy Contract Number One has gone to Professor Emory L. Chafee for research in electronics. One of Chafee's jobs is to invent new kinds of vacuum tubes--he is now working on one that spins a light wave around a beam of electrons. The two interact to strengthen an electric current...
...light of this background, the recent statement was a very encouraging one. At a time when academic freedom in particular, and freedom of speech in general, are taking a bad beating because of the current wave of anti-communist hysteria, Dean Bender's strong re-affirmation of faith in the free exchange of ideas is a welcome reassurance that there are those who will not let themselves be brow-beaten by J. Parnell Thomas--or Fulton Lewis...
...Kiphuth's Yale swimming team swept the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League championships with a tidal wave of points in every event at Princeton Saturday night...