Word: congo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...physics of the sea; Arthur Stanley Eddington, Cambridge, Eng land, for his interpretation of the Einstein theory applied to astronomical problems; C. V. Ludwig Charlier, Sweden, for contributions to astronomy; Bashford Dean, Columbia, for his Biography of Fishes; William Morton Wheeler, Harvard, for his Ants of the American Museum Congo Expedition; Ferdinand Canu, Versailles, France, for his study of the North American Bryozoa (small marine animals). The medals to foreign scientists were received by their respective embassies...
...deal with the evil. No help could be found. In the Autumn of 1921 Dr. Kleine went to Africa with a compound. He set up a camp of wooden huts in the interior of Rhodesia. In the Autumn of 1922 Dr. Kleine's party crossed into Belgian Congo. Finally the cure was "proved." Sleeping sickness is a kind of malaria. The remedy-"Bayer 205"-is first dissolved in water, then injected...
...field at cost price. Radium manufactured from carnotite deposits in Colorado costs from $85 to $110 a milligram, or approximately $50,000,000 a pound. This has been reduced in the last two years to $70 a milligram by the exploitation of much richer ore veins in the Belgian Congo. The Turkestan samples of pitchblende (the main source of radium) run almost twice as high in radium content as the Congo ores, and will make possible its distribution in America at $35 to $40 a milligram. The total amount of radium in use in the world is only eight ounces...
Here is General Booth, The Congo, The Booker T. Washington Trilogy, Daniel?that inspires even professional audiences to give vent to as leonine roars of approbation as possible. Here Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, ("The Campaign of Eighteen Ninety-Six as Viewed at the Time by a Sixteen Year Old") with the most magnificent compliment ever paid to a Presidential candidate, " The one American poet who could sing outdoors." Here is The Chinese Nightingale (Mr. Lindsay's own favorite among his longer poems), and The Litany of the Heroes which he describes as a " rhymed Outline of History, still in process...
...found, which was devised by Ehrlich, of Germany, and Hata, of Japan, after several hundred fruitless trials. Studies of the action of tryparsamide on animals were made by Dr. Wade H. Brown and Dr. Louise Pearce, of the Institute staff, and in 1920 Dr. Pearce went to the Belgian Congo, where she used it extensively in the treatment of African sleeping sickness among the natives. Her results proved it to be the most valuable drug for the treatment of this disease, which is caused by a germ called Trypanosoma gambiense, transmitted by the bite of the tsetse...