Word: chemist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Relying on his gift for guidance, Schaas-berg prescribed simple remedies, such as an herbal tea from the local chemist's, or what he calls "harmless drops." Even the Latin names for the prescriptions "just came" to him, he claimed. If the patient could not get to Maastricht, but sent a letter with a photograph or a ring enclosed, Schaasberg was willing to treat him by mail...
...answers: "Public education . . . in trying to be nonsectarian, quickly became nonChristian, and so in total impact often anti-religious . . . The thinking of the Christian philosophers, being commonly uncredited to them, is diffused into general overtones, and so is neither rightly appreciated nor soundly criticized . . . It is as if the chemist were forbidden to include in his course outline any reference to the salts, or the botanist were required to be completely silent about conifers...
...research associate, Mineralogist Carl W. Beck. With a vanadium steel chisel and a four-pound jackhammer, La Paz succeeded in breaking off a piece the size of a pea. Beck found that the substance had a density of 18.63 (density of lead: 11.34). A commercial chemist in Albuquerque confirmed their suspicions that the chunk was solid metallic uranium, which does not occur in nature, has to be refined from uranium ore by elaborate processes...
...chemist asked: "Have you been handling this stuff?" When he learned that they had, he advised them to get an immediate medical checkup. La Paz and Beck tried to hide their fear by kidding. Said Beck: "You're going to look good, focusing a telescope with your teeth." Countered La Paz: "And what will people think of one of the country's best bridge players shuffling cards with his elbows...
...Manhattan convention of the American Chemical Society (18,000 chemists), Dr. James Bryant Conant, chemist and president of Harvard, looked into his crystal ball (a plastic one, he explained, in deference to modern chemistry). It told him what the world would be like after the next 50 years. ¶Atomic war has been averted, though by "the narrowest of margins." At the end of the century, "Paris, Berlin, London, New York, Moscow still stand physically undamaged by any enemy action since World War II." Communist regimes still hold much of the world, but both Marxism and its opponents have been...