prof

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Arie Haagen-Smit, the Caltech smog prof, imagined in the 1950s that clean-running cars were imminent, “exhaust devices, catalytic devices … and maybe we start putting them in the cars in 1962 and maybe 1965.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

"The higher the value of the trip, the more of a cut Uber takes. So the more the customer pays, the less the driver actually earns per minute," its lead author, prof Reuben Binns, explained.

From BBC • Jun. 29, 2025

A collaborative team of researchers led by prof.

From Science Daily • Oct. 26, 2023

But that may be too complicated a message for a movie in which even the smart one — ex-MIT prof Betty — triumphs not with her brain but with her stomach.

From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2023

He ran over to Ignatius and said cheerily, “Come on, prof, let’s you and me get this off the street.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole