Word: bernard
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...casualties from Indian darts tipped with a potent, paralyzing poison. But a century passed before Sir Walter Raleigh in 1595 carried to Europe the first samples of "urari"-a variant of curare. Years later botanists classified the shrubs from which curare is made,* and the brilliant French physiologist, Claude Bernard, in 1856 made an important discovery: from samples supplied by Brazil's Emperor Pedro II he showed that curare paralyzes its victims by blocking transmission of impulses from nerve to muscle. Beyond that, scientists were as baffled as laymen by the mysteries of curare...
Jung and Jones should be only the beginning. Meaney and Evans now hope to film such great masters as T. S. Eliot, Arnold Toynbee and Bernard Berenson. Says Evans dreamily: "Suppose we had had this thing in the 16th century. Why, we could have had Shakespeare. Even more recently, what a boon it would have been to have had Einstein explain relativity...
BARUCH: MY OWN STORY (337 pp.)-Bernard M. Baruch-Henry Holt...
...When Bernard Baruch was ten, his mother took him to a phrenologist, one of the highly regarded head candlers of that day (1880). After palpating the bulges over the boy's eyebrows, the phrenologist turned to Mamma Baruch and asked: "And what do you propose to do with this young man?" Baruch's mother replied: "I am thinking of making him a doctor." "He will make a good doctor," the phrenologist agreed, "but my advice to you is to take him where they are doing big things-finance or politics...
...officer, "that nobody fights in the summer-it's too bloody hot.") With the temperature last week at 130°, the Sultan's commander in chief, Pat Waterfield, was on home leave in England. So was Britain's top political resident in the Persian Gulf, Sir Bernard Burrows. That left command of the Sultan's army to Major Pat Gray, one of the soldierly Britons who were tossed out of Jordan's Arab Legion along with Glubb Pasha. In response to the hillmen's attack, Major Gray sent several truckloads of troops...