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Erastus H. Lee
Pages 172-177

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From page 173...
... Ras remained in the United States during World War II, first as a progress officer in the British Purchasing Commission in New York City and later in the British Air Commission in Washington, D.C. Officer Lee was involved in planning deliveries of aircraft from U.S.
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From page 174...
... The Office of Naval Research (ONR) brought a world authority on plasticity, Professor William Prager, to Brown University to conduct research and provided substantial financial support for the establishment of the Graduate Division of Applied Mathematics; Ras was recruited as an associate professor.
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From page 175...
... In fact, he came very close to not having the opportunity to pursue his desires at all. In pre-World War II England, after elementary school, children had to take a scholarship examination for entrance to secondary school, and headmasters had the authority to keep them from taking the examination.
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From page 176...
... George Millward, headmaster of King George V, had been a keen student at Caius College, Cambridge, and he loved mathematics, physics, and science in general. He instilled his passion in a small select group of boys including Dad and one lone girl, who had to suffer the embarrassment of walking over to class from the girls' school.
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From page 177...
... Dad was a caring father, who followed silently 10 feet behind me on my first trip by public bus to school (to make sure I arrived safely) , who took his children on hikes, and who coached me on multivariable calculus when I resumed my studies in mathematics and physics after a one-year hiatus at Stanford-in-Germany.
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