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...calmly. The one shaft that got under his skin was that, almost alone in a socially-minded day, he took no interest in social problems. Chekhov certainly did not believe in Art for Propaganda's sake: he thought that "a writer should be just as objective as a chemist." But he surprised his critics by suddenly taking himself off to the Island of Sakhalin, Russian penal colony, and doing a book about conditions there which brought about reforms. With a sidelong glance at his critics, he said: "I am glad that these stiff prison overalls hang in my literary...
...Devanter. Though liberal colleagues may disagree violently with his conservative opinions, they listen with profound respect in conference when, out of the experience of his full quarter-century on the Court, he expounds history, procedure, precedents. As elementary to him as the formula for water is to a master chemist, is the judicial principle that ignorance of the law is no excuse...
President of Dow Chemical since his father died in 1930 has been Willard Henry Dow. 39, who last week was named a director of the American Chemical Society for 1938. A graduate of Michigan (Class of 1919), he worked as a Dow chemist for five years, became assistant general manager in 1926. Not the great chemist the late Dr. Herbert Henry Dow was, Son Willard Henry has maintained the secure and independent position of Dow Chemical Co. by proving himself a competent manager...
...none can be detected in her blood or what she modestly euphemizes as "other fluids." On the fifth day she takes a half-teaspoonful of cystine, cysteine, d-1-methionine, l-methionine, cystine-disulfoxide, sulfonic acid or cysteic acid, the seven body sulfur compounds crystallized by Lankenau's Chemist Gerrit Toennies. For the next 24 to 36 hours Miss Medes remains alone and foodless in her laboratory taking samples of her blood every half-hour, other fluids whenever possible. The week-long experiment over, she then goes to her boarding house, a block away from her laboratory, to recover...
...four men who turned the crystal diffraction grating invented by Max von Laue into a precise instrument which, by combing X-rays through the atomic lattice in the crystal, determines the composition of a mixture as exactly as by chemical analysis. In Pittsburgh last September Chemist Debye pointed out to the American Chemical Society that water has a quasi-crystalline structure, therefore resembles a diamond more closely in arrangement than it resembles its own gaseous form, steam. "We are just beginning to know what water is," he said wryly, "although we have been calling it H2O for more than...