Word: chem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although concentration in bio-chem calls for courses in chemistry, biology, and physics, with some mathematics a very handy adjunct, the field is not just a pleasant four-year exposure to a liberal education in the sciences. The vast majority of men in the department, most of them pre-medical students, are playing for keeps, since medical schools are notoriously grade-conscious...
Once in the dining hall, Vag's momentary Plympton Street apprehensions were allayed. Above the chatter about Chem A, exam schedules, and the end of the Wellesley spring vacation, could be heard the magic words Durocher, MacPhail and Williams. Even Cambridge was a part of America. Hastily digesting his chipped beef on toast, Vag raced into the House courtyard, scooped up an imaginary ground ball, and made a perfect throw to first base. He made a mental note to cut his Tuesday lab, and maybe his 10 o'clock class as well. After all, it was opening...
Welcome Back. In Ames, Iowa, ex-Serviceman Keith Young returned to Iowa State College, was greeted by the bursar: "You owe a chem breakage fee from the winter of '43. $1.37, please...
...handsomest Chinese fighter pilot in the European Theater of Operations" is what slight, Hawaiian-born Lieut. Kong calls himself (he is the only one; there are a few Chinese-American bombermen). He got into flying by way of the Corps of Engineers, for which he worked as a chem ist after he finished the University of Hawaii. Between missions he tries to teach other pilots Hawaiian without nota ble success. They cannot even learn to say "Hemakana Hewahewa Okalani Yim," which is his niece Shirley's Hawaiian name...
...ever duplicated shellac's complicated chemical structure. But Chem ist C. G. Harford, of the Arthur D. Little laboratory in Cambridge, Mass., found that a resin named zein, derived from corn, behaved very much like shellac. A drawback, however, was that in solution zein had a tendency to jell. By an un disclosed chemical process, Harford finally succeeded in converting zein into a non-jelling resin. The result, Zinlac, not only has the quick-drying, elastic qualities of shellac, but is also more resistant to water and makes a better coat for metal...