Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Professor Walter Francis Reid, 81, inventor of smokeless powder, onetime (1910) president of the Society of Chemical Industry, research chemist (linoleum, cement, silver on backs of mirrors); of "extreme debility;" in Kingston. Surrey, England. A recluse for the last two years, Professor Reid lived in a cold, decaying mansion on milk and well-water, saw no one, was found in a stupor, his hair straggling to his shoulders, his beard to his waist...
...pair of natives bouncing a rubber ball. Three centuries later Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley could make his erasures with a new-fangled device called a rubber. Two generations after that a Mr. Farris was collecting rubber seeds from Brazil to plant in Ceylon, East India and Polynesia, and Chemist Greville Williams had just discovered that rubber and isoprene were polymers. Then a Frenchman and an American made the plant almost indispensable and the War set half a dozen, nations to work trying to find a way to produce rubber within their boundaries. Thomas Edison boiled up native U. S. weeds...
...League of the U. S., a 25-year-old organization of civilians and retired naval officers who contribute $30,000 per year to propagate the Big Navy idea from headquarters in Washington. Mr. Gardiner is pleased when his friends call him "The Admiral." Boston-born, he worked as a chemist, got into electrical engineering, became an associate partner of Utilitarian Henry Latham Doherty, made enough money to retire to a comfortable home on Manhattan's East 57th Street. Mrs. Gardiner is Mary Ruth McBurney, interior decorator...
...breathing takes place. He found that respiration is possible only in the presence of the iron carried by a specific enzyme, the chemistry of which he worked out. Said Dr. Warburg last week: "It was only recently that I found out how the difference had arisen. Wieland as a chemist worked on dead cell material. When you destroy living cells you get a juice in which combustible materials such as sugar are much more highly concentrated than in the living cell, and by virtue of that higher concentration respiration in that liquid can take place in the absence of iron...
Practicality. When as a boy he hawked newspapers and fruit and played with chemicals on a Michigan train, he spilled some burning phosphorus. An irate conductor gave the amateur chemist such a box on both ears that his deafness is partially ascribed to it. Thus he developed an interest in aural matters which eventually led to the telephone, dictograph, phonograph, talking cinema. Hence a slight interest in music: "I think the best music is that which has a tempo which corresponds to half of our heart-beat." For other cultural or even gustatory enjoyments he had no interest because...