Word: finlay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neill) and the commission headed by Major Walter Reed (Lewis Stone) in their long fight against the yellow peril. It makes no bones about pointing out that the eventually accepted solution, i.e., that the disease was spread by the Stegomyia mosquito, was something that a Havana physician, Dr. Carlos Finlay, had been saying in vain for 19 years. And it stamps as matter-of-fact, unassuming heroes the young doctor (Henry Hull) who died and the five volunteers who risked their lives to test the Finlay theory...
...atones for much past preciousness, affirms what many cinemagoers discovered last year in Night Must Fall (TIME, May 10, 1937)-that he is an excellent actor. In his third cinema role, veteran Play Actor Charles Coburn (The Better 'Ole) gives a solid, bitter-edged portrayal of Dr. Carlos Finlay...
...each editor on arrival in his Detroit hotel room was the announcement of another prize and its winner. This was Country Home magazine's award for the best country newspaper correspondent of the year. The winner, who gets $200 and a trip to New York and Washington, was Finlay ("Fin") Petrie, 53, reporter for the Kemmerer, Wyo. Gazette in the woolgathering town of Opal (pop. 50). The envy of his profession, Petrie never got through grammar school. He came to the U. S. from Scotland as an itinerant house painter, turned up in Opal where the general store gave...
Selected from a list of 41 recommendations by proctors in the Yard, the membership of the new committee includes the following: Robert W. Anderson, John O. Bates, Oliver P. Bolton, Peter F. Cunningham. Robert T. Gannett, 2nd, J. Gorden Gilkey, Jr., Finlay H. Perry, Harvey M. Rose, and Edward H. Schoyer
...only by the device of listing decorations from twelve foreign countries "and so forth," honorary degrees from 20 universities "and many others," announced that Chile had made him a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit; that Cuba had given him the Grand Cross of the Order of Carlos Finlay and Greece the Cross of the Grand Commander of the Order of the Saviour; that the University of Edinburgh had promised him an LL. D. in June...