Word: bergius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Friedrich Bergius, 64, German-born scientist who won the 1931 Nobel Prize for chemistry (for converting coal into gasoline), an expert on ersatz foodstuffs which were later used by the Nazi war machine (he succeeded in making sugar out of sawdust); of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires...
Wrote he: "As a promontory among noses it would have earned the admiration of Slawken-Bergius.*. . . It is indeed a very remarkable nose . . . and one which differentiates itself from other remarkable noses. It has not the tremendous hook of Lord Chatham's; it is not aspiring, like the Younger Pitt's, nor wildly ambitious, like Lady Hester Stanhope's, nor grandly aquiline, like the Iron Duke's; but as one studies it there is a temptation to think that it must be prehensile, like an elephant's trunk...