Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dark, easy-smiling Guy Gibson flew his first bombing mission-to Kiel's ship canal. By late 1943, Wing Commander Gibson was the only one left of his 1939 squadron's 26 men. "Great Guy" Gibson had become a legend in the R.A.F. He was the famed "Dam Buster" (so dubbed by Winston Churchill after the spectacular Möhne and Eder dam-breaching raids); Britain's most decorated airman (the Victoria Cross, the Distinguished Flying Cross and bar, the Distinguished Service Order and bar); "the most experienced bomber pilot in the world...
...Dam, Doisy and Vitamin K. Drs. Henrik Dam and Edward Adelbert Doisy share the 1943 medicine prize ($29,500.07) for discovery and synthesis, respectively, of vitamin K, the "blood-coagulation vitamin." This is the fifth time vitamin research has won a Nobel prize...
Fair-skinned Dr. Dam, 49, is a Dane who taught biochemistry in Copenhagen until the Germans came. Then he managed to reach the U.S. via Finland, is now doing research in biochemistry at the University of Rochester's medical school. In the early '30s he noticed that baby chicks on a restricted diet had tiny hemorrhages under their skins. Their blood, he found, contained very little prothrombin, a blood element necessary for clotting. He cured them by feeding them pigs' liver, alfalfa, cabbage, spinach, etc. In 1935 he announced that he had isolated the curative substance from...
...before he died, this plain man and radical saw the monument that will preserve his name. That monument, not merely Norris Dam but the entire Tennessee Valley Authority, is greater than any Pharaoh or any emperor ever...
...summer of 1862, a Union cavalry patrol galloping by the deserted station of Beaver Dam, Va. almost rode down a meek-looking little Confederate scout day dreaming in the sun. In his haversack they found a single, unimportant-looking letter and a newly-published copy of Napoleon's Maxims of War. Unimpressed, they read and destroyed the letter, sent the scout off to jail in Washington...