Word: friedrich
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There it stayed until the 1890s, when Felix Hoffmann, working for Friedrich Bayer & Co. outside Düsseldorf, tried the drug on his father and found that it miraculously eased the old man's rheumatic pains. Hoffmann's boss, Heinrich Dreser, coined the name aspirin, and rushed the drug to market. Aspirin was a registered trade name, and still is in Germany, though it lost that privileged status in the U.S. in 1917, when the Monsanto Co. began to make it in large quantities. Like nearly all other important chemicals, it is now made synthetically from coal...
...four years, the state assembled 84,000 pages of incriminating documents and laboriously prepared a 900-page indictment against Heyde and a group of his former associates, including Friedrich Tillmann, 60, onetime director of a Cologne orphanage. Last week, seven days before they were scheduled to go on trial, Tillmann plunged to his death from a nine-story window in Cologne. Next day, Heyde, 61, looped a belt over a radiator in his jail cell and hanged himself...
Professor Dr. Friedrich Schaller of the Braunschweig Technische Hochschule's Zoological Institute is a scientific voyeur. He has spent the better part of the past three years spying on the love life of Germany's two native glowworms. The males of the Lampyris noctiluca family, he reports with apparent approval, are choosy in picking their mates. The males of Phausis splendidula are as undiscriminating as sailors home from...
...handle such versatility, the faculty itself is a sort of vest-pocket university. Friedrich Hayek, the non-Keynesian economist, was a longtime regular. Hannah Arendt, a recent catch, is a famed expert on totalitarianism. Novelist Bellow is there, he says, because of his "interest in social questions. I like to keep in touch...
...Utopians think that science can transform the Atlantic Ocean into lemonade," snorted Karl Marx's coworker, Friedrich Engels. Yet who should be serving up lemonade last week than that old realist Nikita Khrushchev. In the Kremlin's marble-hailed Palace of the Congresses, addressing the Communist Party Central Committee and more than 5,000 other comrades, Nikita promised that one great force would miraculously straighten out the Soviet economic mess: Big Chemistry...