Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Harold Cole Watkins, 58, chemist who in 1937 prepared the fatal formula containing sulfanilamide and diethylene glycol, labeled "Elixir Sulfanilamide," which killed at least 76 people; by his own hand (shooting); in Bristol, Tenn...
...area by land and sea. A batch of Treasury men lounged elaborately around at the pier. Into this ambush walked Amateur DeGhett. At midnight he finally induced the T-men to stop third-degreeing and open the packages. In them they found a walking stick for DeGhett, a hand made basket for Mrs. Hall...
...Industrious and daring both as businessman and composer, Ives soon formed his own insurance managing agency, helped build it into one of the largest of its kind in the U. S. But Ives never let his business interfere with his composing. His evenings and holidays were spent, pen-in-hand, over an old desk, piling up a huge heap of manuscripts that were later to bring him fame...
...lecture hall on the third floor go hundreds of enthusiastic students during the week from the schools of Medicine, Hygiene and Public Health. Three steps lead up to the lecturer's oaken platform, and a hand railing stands next to the steps. It was built for Founder Welch, who was so rotund that he could not see beyond his middle, had to use the railing for a guide when he came to the edge of the platform and descended the steps. No need for a hand rail has energetic Dr. Sigerist who often takes the steps in one leap...
...Martin, 38, edited hundreds of thousands of words before he wrote his first book. At Princeton, he was Chairman of the Daily Princetonian, became a charter member of the TIME staff before he left college. At various times he has filled nearly every editorial post on TIME, had a hand in FORTUNE, LIFE, MARCH OF TIME (radio and newsreel). A keen golfer, fish erman, huntsman, he once made a hole in one at Stoke Poges. In 1937 he broke the North American record for tuna (821 Ib.) off the Nova Scotian coast in a storm. General Manpower was written shortly...