Word: gottlieb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Founded in 1822 at Leipzig by learned Lorenz Oken (1779-1851) ; real name Ochenfuss, obstreperous editor of Isis, friend of Goethe. On the basis of Immanuel Kant's (1724-1804) critical philosophy and with clues from Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854) he created the systematic plans upon which modern scientific knowledge is ranged. Protean, he lectured, at Jena, on general natural history, zoology, comparative anatomy, human, animal and plant physiology...
...Cabbages, Brussels sprouts, and spinach do not contribute much to bodily tissues. But they are invaluable for the lime they furnish to the teeth."-Bernhard Gottlieb of Vienna...
Syracuse, which captured the honors in 1922 and 1923, is Harvard's most dangerous opponent in the coming event with such runners as Bell, who made a remarkable showing last year when he won the Freshman race; Gottlieb, conqueror of Nurmi in a handicap test last winter; and James Loucks. Pittsburgh, with only Corbett and Howell of its last year's victorious five available, appears to have little chance...
Heaven opened. Arrowsmith had every facility, quiet, no interference. He had Gottlieb and one Terry Wickett, just such a lie-hunter as was Arrowsmith. He raced at his work, struck an unknown germ-eater, "Phage," and paused on the threshold of fame to establish scientific certainty. Came another blow. McGurk Institute, founded to cleanse a grubby name, could not risk loss of publicity. He was ordered to publish his find at once. He refused. A Frenchman found Phage, got the publicity. Arrowsmith was in bad odor at McGurk, even at McGurk, supposedly one of the three strongholds Science...
...hunters! Gottlieb was decrepit, Leora gone. Arrowsmith tried life as the scientist husband of a rich widow. No good. Finally he buried himself in the Vermont woods, tracking down bacteriological verities with Terry Wickett. As the world saw it, he had "failed...