Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old prospector named Ernest Johnson started it all. In two years of experience with radioactive ores around the Eldorado mine on Great Bear Lake, he had noticed that where there was uranium there were also cobalt and nickel. Figuring that the converse should be true, he packed a Geiger counter and pushed up the Roxey Creek valley, 120 miles north of Vancouver, where fallen rock bearing cobalt "bloom" lay in the creek...
...year and a half ago, Ernest Salisbury was committed to a mental ward in Eloise, Mich. as an alcoholic. He spent days there scribbling musical notations on scraps of paper. When the hospital's music therapists got a look at them, they found that
...Ernest, who had had a little musical education, had written some simple but appealing melodies. The doctors encouraged him; he was soon writing popular songs for his new friends among the staff and forgetting his need for a drink...
Generosity & Atomic Bombs. White-haired Dr. Ernest Jones told reporters: "Germany never got over its sense of guilt for starting the first world war . . . [And] do you think the Russians have ever got over killing their Great Father [the Czar]?" Dr. G. R. Hargreaves, chief medical officer of Unilever, thought the British "experience a terrific amount of guilt about American generosity." In the U.S., he had noted a "national feeling of guilt for having dropped the atomic bomb...
...Havana, Ernest Hemingway was interviewed by Prensa Libre, which at last revealed the subject of the novel Hemingway has been writing at the past six years. "It'll be about the earth, the air, and the sea." Added Prensa Libre: "Hemingway is a complex figure without precedent. Quite a few regard him as the reincarnation of Benvenuto Cellini...