Word: africa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Homer Smith, 52, of New York University, famed physiologist and explorer (Africa, Malaya), whose work has been based largely on studies of osmosis in fish; for fundamental discoveries about the connection between kidney disorders and heart disease...
...believe that the continents are masses of granite floating in the heavier plastic basalt which underlies both the land and the ocean basins. Since they are floating, they may drift, like infinitely slow-moving icebergs. One theory holds that North and South America have drifted away from Europe and Africa, and that the curving crack between them has widened to form the Atlantic Ocean...
...army till 1946, Hal served most of his time with the First Infantry Division of the Regular Army, a job which carried him into North Africa as the platoon leader in a machine gun company. After receiving and recovering from, an injury in Tunisia, Kopp was sent back to the states to serve as R.O.T.C. Commandant at the University of Connecticut...
...year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, inheritor of $20 million, avid pursuer of the outdoor life (horses, deep-sea fishing, hunting, aviation). An instructor pilot in World War I, Whitney entered World War II as a major, served ably in Africa, the Pacific and Washington, came out a colonel with the Distinguished Service Medal...
Gide's poems, plays and novels were ignored by the French public from the first (he was 67 when he wrote his first bestseller, Return from the U.S.S.R.). Buttressed by an independent income, he went on writing as he pleased, traveled in Europe and Africa, financed and helped to edit a Paris literary review (Nouvelle Revue Franfaise) that acquired a small but secure world reputation. He had married his cousin Emmanuele, but the Journals make it clear that it was a marriage of convenience. ("But of everything concerning [Emmanuele] I forbid myself to speak here...