Word: chemist
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...shall never forget the courtesy and kindness with which I have been received by the Faculty and students of the University," said Dr. Harry Krepelka, the Bohemian chemist, in an interview yesterday. Arriving in this country for the first time a few weeks ago, Dr. Krepelka seemed genuinely delighted by his reception here...
...Krepelka is himself a chemist of considerable ability, having received his training while assistant to Professor Brauner, director of the Chemical Laboratory of the University of Prague, and acknowledged the leading chemist of Czecho-Slovakia...
...their best, so as to take the place of the men who have gone before, when Mars has given them up as a pawn, in the great game. The men at home are dropping the philosophical volume, the poets' lore, for the slide rule and the law of the chemist, in answer to the call of stern necessity. The arts are neglected while the sciences come into their own. And for the moment perhaps, this is best while Mars' cloud lowers on the horizon...
...determine how the money available for the purpose can be spent so as to give the largest possible returns. To have good public administration we must unite our efforts and powers in the same way. We must utilize the researches of the scientific expert of every kind, physicist or chemist, physician or engineer, jurist or statistician; but we must have this work directed and organized by men who understand the conduct of business in the best sense of the word. The same spirit of co-operation is needed in order to bring our standards of public morality into line with...
Some years ago a physiological chemist was informed that he would receive no further support from the state because he had antagonized the farmers by revealing the true worth of oleomargarine, a substitute for butter. In 1892 politicians in charge of a statistical bureau manipulated figures so that a completely false impression was given of the scale of wages for a specified period...