Word: chemist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend. First of the Quisling Cabinet to get a uniform, he copied his so closely from Goebbels' that in photographs it was hard to tell Lunde from Goebbels. Norwegians nicknamed Lunde "lille Goebbels," and knew him as a vain, ambitious, foolish man who had been an outstanding research chemist when he joined the Quisling Party...
Sergeant Shapiro, who before the war was a chemist for a New Jersey flavoring-extract firm, has already brewed 50,000 cc. of the poison-ivy inoculant-enough for half a million injections. But the extract is not his invention. It was developed by Colonel Sanford Williams French, a longtime Army doctor who commands the medical branch of the Fourth Service Command. French, one of the 40% of mankind who are relatively immune to poison ivy, can safely gather the plant barehanded. Sergeant Shapiro cannot. Paradoxically, he is one of the few individuals on whom the poison-ivy extract will...
...minute weekly series has featured such German refugees and German-Americans as: Wilhelm Sollman, onetime Minister of the Interior in Stresemann's Cabinet; Dr. Eric Stoetzner, ex-managing editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung; Chemist Dr. Werner Leszynski; Dr. William Dickman, former German magistrate; Dr. A. E. Zucker, professor of modern languages at the University of Maryland...
...simplest device of all consists only of a beer can filled with absorbent material and a clothespin to clamp on the nose. It is approved by no one except its inventor, Chemist Vernon Bowers of Baltimore, Ohio...
When Jim Conant, a Dorchester engraver's son, was picked as Harvard's president in 1933, Harvard men wondered whether he would prove as good an executive as he was a chemist. Last week they were ready to admit that he had proved even better...