Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...close of the fall trip, Wilson had saidthat she might embark on another tour this spring,but according to Radcliffe spokesperson Michael A.Armini, such a tour has not yet been planned...
...RCAA Second Vice President Diana E. Post'67 says Wilson shouldn't leave Cambridge if shecan't bring alumnae more details about theprocess...
Much of this chapter is devoted to President Woodrow Wilson's steadfast and not entirely popular efforts to keep the U.S. out of the conflict between the Allied and Central Powers. There is nothing new here, but there is value in being reintroduced to an American leader whose every move was not dictated by public whim. This installment, in addition to offering moving reflections from still-living World War I veterans, also features an appearance by Wilson's grandson, the Rev. Francis Sayre. He talks about how his widowed grandfather fell for Edith Galt, a woman he met golfing...
...Electrical engineer Wilson Greatbatch invents the first implantable cardiac pacemaker; it is powered by a zinc-mercury battery...
...American radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson accidentally discover cosmic background radiation, which bolsters the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe...