Word: heidelberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America-whose editors bit like everyone else on F. Donald Coster, credited him with a Ph. D. from Heidelberg -announced in a promotion booklet that henceforth it would exercise such precautions as checking college degrees. F. Donald Coster's surname and his early "Girard & Co.", speculated Who's Who, might have come from one Gerard F. Coster who was mentioned in a biographical compilation of rich New Yorkers published...
Among the scientists with whom Wald was associated during his training abroad, were Professors Otto Warburg, of Berlin-Dahlem, Otto Meyerhoff, of Heidelberg, and Paul Karrer, of Zurich. Wald's results are the fruits of many months of painstaking experiments with human, animal, and fish eyes...
Dueling is no longer a college custom even at Heidelberg, but at tiny Blue Ridge College in New Windsor, Md., Freshmen George Deaton and George List stole into the college gymnasium one dawn last week, began to make grim preparations. While the two freshmen stripped to the waist, companions found a pair of French fencing épées, pulled off the protective tips, sterilized the points. Business: a duel. Challenger: Freshman List. Prize: the favor of a blonde Blue Ridge co-ed known as "Little Miss America...
...orangutan, and Sivapithecus, a manlike fossil ape discovered many years ago in India. The geological character of the ground, however, indicated that Dr. Broom's creatures lived relatively late in the Glacial Age, by which time definitely human types such as Peking Man, Piltdown Man and Heidelberg Man had already appeared. Plesianthropus and Paranthropus thus appeared as laggard survivors of a much earlier evolutionary spurt-"conservative cousins of man," says Dr. Gregory, "and progressive cousins of the modern apes...
...Frank Donald Coster (according to Who's Who) got his M. D. from Heidelberg. That year and the next United States Hair Co. borrowed nearly $1,000,000 on invoices signed by branch offices in London, Paris, Naples; lenders were the Bank of the Manhattan Co., the Anglo-South American Trust Co., and J. & W. Seligman & Co., some 20 others. But when Philip Musica tried to borrow $370,000 on a bill of lading for $250 worth of hair, the company fell apart. There were no legitimate offices abroad. There was mighty little hair. There was a sudden shortage...