Word: basel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his stay in Europe, Professor Schwinger served as an American delegate to the atomic conference at Basel, Switzerland, and was one of ten physicists presenting papers to the parley. Professor Schwinger's paper reviewed work in the new field of electrodynamics...
...conference, which opened September 5 at Basel, Switzerland, and then moved to Como, Italy, attracted 200 physicists from almost every country in the world except those in the Soviet bloc...
Some nine years ago, a Swiss chemist named Paul Müller was busy in a laboratory in Basel, looking for a drug to protect plants against insects. Trying one combination of chemicals after another, he finally found one that killed flies. He took some of the stuff home, and discovered that it killed mosquitoes too. Dr. Mller's compound was dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane...
...bearlike Karl Barth of Basel, Switzerland, had jolted the Amsterdam delegates with a speech on the text: Take counsel together and it shall come to naught . . . for God is with us! (Isaiah 8:10). Perhaps, he said, the much-regretted absence of either Roman Catholic or Russian Orthodox delegates was God's doing: "I propose that we should now praise and thank God, that it pleases Him to stand so clearly in the way of our plans." Barth warned the churchmen that their job was to bear witness to the Gospel -not to presume to the world-saving functions...
Foreign Issue. The World Bank sold its first issue of foreign currency bonds for $4,000,000 in Swiss francs to the Bank for International Settlements at Basel, Switzerland. The proceeds of the issue will be used to buy electrical equipment in Switzerland for The Netherlands, as part of a World Bank loan to the Dutch government...