Word: cincinnati
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Stately Pierces. Briggs Cunningham was born in the middle of the Vanderbilt Cup era, in 1907. But at the Cunningham house in Cincinnati, where Briggs Sr. made his money in meat packing, the speedy shenanigans on Long Island were ignored. Father Cunningham was a lover of good horseflesh. It was not until he died in 1914 that Mrs. Cunningham bought the family's first car, a stately Pierce Arrow that Briggs, with the help of the family chauffeur, later learned to drive...
...Louis (Staley) 4, Cincinnati...
Tricky Water. Cincinnati has been a center for U.S. public-health studies since 1913, when health engineers settled in an old downtown mansion to study Ohio River pollution. Water-borne typhoid fever, raging in the Ohio Valley in those days, was their chief concern. Nowadays, the typhoid bacillus is "literally no longer a problem" to Dr. Leslie A. Chambers, research director of the center. His staff must now tackle the far more complex problems of contamination of both water and food by viruses and fungi, synthetic chemicals and radioactivity...
...Cincinnati is also busy with air samples. A paper filter exhibited at the center last week was black with filth from local air, which had been sucked through it. Doctors have seen that the city's curve of smog concentrations matched the curve of deaths from heart and respiratory disease. Each day the center receives filters, coated with air pollutants collected by the same process in 23 other U.S. cities, for analysis and comparison. Right now, the Fort Worth filters are tan from wind-borne topsoil. Those from Detroit and Los Angeles show that, at rush hours, the lead...
...ancient languages (Greek and Latin), plus some of the methods he learned as a wartime cryptographer, Ventris began his work in earnest after the publication in 1951 of a book concerning another great discovery. The book was about the work of Professor Carl Blegen of the University of Cincinnati, who had come across 600 tablets while excavating the site of what is believed to have been the palace of King Nestor of Pylos, one of the great, Greek-speaking Achaean heroes of the Iliad. Since the Evans and Blegen tablets were in the same Linear B script, it was obvious...