the chair
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“As kids in school they were told this was a great national emergency, that we needed scientists,” Klaw heard from Victor Weisskopf, the chair of MIT’s physics department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
Having the chair speak for the committee “brings a certain coherence to the communications that I think we’re lacking,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
For Timothy Snyder, the chair in modern European history at Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, Carney's outreach to Europe in response to US hostility is tactically sound.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
“You don’t want to be too responsive to economic forces,” the chair said, adding that computer-science departments are traditionally focused on “fundamentals we can cover that, in some sense, are eternal.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
I jump from the chair and run to the librarians on duty.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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