Word: brunswick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great as penicillin. Called streptomycin, it is a product of the mold-like Actinomyces griseus, which helps to give newly turned earth its distinctive smell. The drug was discovered by stocky, energetic Selman A. Waksman, 56, Russian-born microbiologist at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station in New Brunswick, and dean of U.S. antibiotic researchers. (The first to use the word antibiotic for these new drugs, he was writing on the subject years before penicillin's rise...
...eastern Montreal, cavorting youngsters saw his portly honor. He was swathed in sweaters and wore a ceinture flechée around his waist (see cut), and his outsize nose was empurpled with the cold as he skillfully performed the figures he had learned during idle hours in the New Brunswick internment camp...
Some new facts about the common cold were presented recently by Dr. Joseph Henry Kler of New Brunswick, N.J. For two years he has been studying the subject among New Brunswick and Chicago employes of Johnson & Johnson, surgical-supply house. To the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, he reported...
Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's dynamic, impish 65-year-old Lord Privy Seal, visited his old Canadian boyhood haunts in the Newcastle district of New Brunswick. Remembered by old neighbors in Newcastle as plain Mr. Aitken, he thanked his good friend, William Corbett, a grocery clerk, for sending to London his favorite recipe for buckwheat flapjacks, called on an aged recluse who writes him a weekly Newcastle newsletter, went salmon fishing...
Merry-Go-Round. In Saint John, New Brunswick, Alphonse Arsenault plunged, fully clothed, into roaring Reversing Falls, which nobody had ever survived, got caught in a huge whirlpool that spun him merry-go-round while he shouted "Whoops," two minutes later washed him ashore, still whooping, 100 yards downstream...