Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Drama is the revelation of the potentialities of every man. The theatre is a great mirror of life. All creative activities extend human consciousness, and enlarge human power. But there is this difference. A chemist or an engineer may remain ignorant in other departments of knowledge. The function of drama is to bring the infinite variety of the living world into convenient compass for observation. To increase knowledge of humanity is to enlarge humanity...
...Clark, chief chemist of the State Department of Health will continue the courses in the Engineering School which the late Professor George Chandler Whipple formerly taught. Mr. Clark, who will act as lecturer on sanitary engineering during the second, half-year graduated from Cornell University, with the class of 1887. He has also pursued extensive studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is the author or numerous papers on sanitary chemical, and bacterial subjects, and reports upon methods for the purification of sewage and water...
...temptation to solve the old problem of alchemy?how to make gold. Here is the 80th electron of a mercury atom revolving around its nucleus, much like a planet around the sun, waiting to be knocked off and leave the precious old Midas-metal in the chemist's palm...
Feast. A fortnight ago, in Manhattan, Harvey W. Wiley, coeur-de-lion of pure-food crusades, onetime chief U. S. Government Chemist, sat down to dinner. The occasion was his 80th birthday; his hosts were the members of the Agricultural Chemists' Association, of which he is the Honorary President. Down the long table, fenced with formal shirtfronts, candles shone on the sparkling glasses, on the dishes and dishes of food that succeeded one another. Savory food it was, nourishing, succulent; but on the little cards beside each place it was called by strange names-Borax, Benzoate, Coal Tar, Copper...
...Purity. He conceived the pure food idea when he, a Professor at Purdue University, had taken a year off to study Chemistry in Berlin. Returning, he analyzed some table syrups for the Indiana Board of Health, found them "abominably adulterated." Made Chief Chemist to the U. S. Government, he began his famed food experiments on human beings. In his Bureau, he formed a "poison squad" of volunteers-12 gallant youths from the clerical force who swore to eat nothing beyond the curious diet he daily administered to them. He fed them on advertised foods that contained boracic acid, sulfates, benzoates...