Word: chemist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a weary, gentle man, who has been a citizen of two nations, sailed from New York to become President of a third. Israel's President Chaim Weizmann was born in Russia, had served Britain brilliantly as a chemist in World War I, and had lost a son in the R.A.F. in World War II. But his journey would not take him through his second homeland. "To our great sorrow," explained Mrs. Weizmann, "the attitude of Great Britain has prevented us from going to London . . . We don't wish to come to England on sufferance...
...Bull Butter." Farm-area Congressmen had long sneered at margarine as "bull butter," had taxed it, regulated and abused it for more than half a century. Women had hardly murmured. For one thing, early margarine was not very tasty. A French chemist had stewed up the first batch from animal fats in 1869 because Napoleon III had offered a prize for a butter substitute. The result was a lardlike, greasy substance. Improved margarine, made from coconut oil, caught the public fancy during World War I. But it was not until the butter-rationed days of World War II that millions...
Burly, black-haired Ed Queeny was no chemist; he had quit Cornell in his sophomore year to join the Navy in World War I. But he knew enough about chemistry to know that the U.S. market for chemicals was unlimited...
...Chekhov expresses himself most explicitly about his writing creed: "My goal is to kill two birds with one stone: to paint life in its true aspects, and to show how far this life falls short of the ideal life." A writer, he insisted, "must be as objective as a chemist ... he must know that dung-heaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones." Chekhov...
...tragedy of Palestine, past and to come, weighed on none more heavily than on old (73) Chaim Weizmann, who more than anyone else had been responsible for Zionism's success-if success it is. Weizmann, a great chemist, had done his once-beloved Britain a memorable service in World War I. He discovered a new method of producing acetone for munitions. Said Lloyd George cynically: "Acetone converted me to Zionism...