Word: wilson
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Edgar Bright Wilson, Jr., assistant professor of Chemistry, has received the $1,000 award of the American Chemical Society which is awarded to "a scientist under 31 years of age and of unusual promise...
...Wilson came to Harvard in the fall of 1934 as a Junior Fellow of the Society of Follows. He was appointed an assistant professor at the beginning of the academic year 1936-37. His field is physical chemistry. He received his A.B. from Princeton in 1930 and his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology...
...field early in the second half with a torn ligament after having played an lace game. He is definitely out of the Army game and whether or not he will be able to return to the lineup before the end of the season is not yet known. Wilson, who suffered a shoulder bruise, is ready...
Philadelphia. Having been a Republican in 1905, a Wilson Democrat in 1912 and 1916, a Republican officeholder in 1927, a successful candidate for Democratic city controller in 1933 and for Republican mayor in 1935, Philadelphia's boisterous Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson was last week plunking his oratorical hardest for the Democratic slate in a city election for four job-dispensing offices-controller, treasurer, coroner, register of wills -for all of which the Democrats were conceded a better-than-even chance. Mayor Wilson had most fun with two rich but politically unsophisticated socialites who undertook to revive Philadelphia...
Stung by his opponent's tactics, bald, amiable Mr. Cooke charged that Mayor Wilson and his allies had succeeded in ''muffling" a Grand Jury investigation of Philadelphia vice ordered by Socialite Judge Curtis Bok, who is also up for reelection. Ordered to explain to the Grand Jury what he meant by "muffling," Mr. Cooke last week took the witness stand, floundered: "Well, the word-muffled-as I understand it, is generally applied to drums. In other words, you have heard of a muffled drum The muffling . . . simply insulates the drum from the outside influences which in that...