Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Bernard Shaw and God were too much for Blanco and Feemy. Between the two of them they turned these hardened sinners into sentimental softies. What God couldn't supply George came through with. God furnished a rainbow and a baby with the croup, and George brought forth situations and ejaculations equal to the reformation of the most abandoned reprobates; between them they turned the trick. Blanco and Feemy lost that rotten feeling, and as the curtain fell their wings began to sprout. God was probably pleased; Shaw certainly was; and the audiences who witness the Stagers' production...
Guessers about the origin of life on Earth last week hearkened when a distinguished Californian announced the discovery of bacteria in meteorites. For lack of precise facts, some guessers have placed life, with meteors, sunshine, starshine and cosmic rays, as an extramundane intrusion. Professor Charles Bernard Lipman, the booming, moon-faced plant-physiologist who is dean of the University of California's graduate division, now thinks such guessers have been correct. From several sources he acquired meteorites (meteors which landed intact on Earth). These he doused, scrubbed, seared and otherwise sterilized, then pulverized in sterile mortars. The dust...
...Carnegie Endowment for International Peace considered a Czech electrical device for analyzing chemicals so highly useful that it imported the inventor last week, let him pause only briefly in Manhattan, sent him post-haste to Berkeley, Calif. There he will be Professor Charles Bernard Lipman's house guest. After the University of California has Professor Jaroslav Heyrovsky for one month, he will spend another month at Stanford. Then Caltech will get him for two months. He expects those institutions, and many other rich ones, will buy his device. Enterprising Universities of Michigan, Chicago and Ohio already have them, only...
Died. Rosemary McAuliffe Wallen, 19, youngest daughter of Eugene McAuliffe, president of Union Pacific Coal Co., assistant to Union Pacific Railroad's President Carl Raymond Gray; and Bernard Kinney, 21, son of Editor Vincent Kinney of Omaha's labor newspaper Unionist; by asphyxiation (carbon monoxide gas) in an automobile on the grounds of Omaha's Field Club...
Wendell Louis Willkie, formerly a partner in the law firm of Weadock & Willkie, was elected president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., big Morgan-Drexel-Bonbright Utility holding company. Bernard Capen Cobb, who has held both the presidency and chairmanship for the last year, will continue as chairman, the corporation's chief executive post...