Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Research into cancer leads workers into many byways, occasionally into danger. In September, Biochemist Herbert Winegard began to study a substance called ergo-thioneine, a sulphur compound found in abnormal amounts in the urine of cancer patients; it may, chemists think, affect the growth of cancer. In order to make the compound artificially, Winegard had to work with an unstable chemical compound called diazomethane; it is a deadly, odorless yellow gas that can be inhaled without giving a warning sensation of choking. No antidote is known. On Thanksgiving Day he finished his first pilot synthesis at Philadelphia's Lankenau...
Last week, 74-year-old Herbert Hoover emerged from this governmental jungle to give Harry Truman a preliminary report at the White House. He had a number of recommendations. Shedding of unnecessary red tape on small Government purchases could save $250 million a year. It now costs $11.20 to process an order for a $10 purchase. Perhaps $3 billion could be saved by regrouping 60 administrative agencies into about...
...almost 20 years of war and revolution the pilots of the China National Aviation Corp. have flown some of the most hazardous commercial schedules in the world. Last week TIME Correspondent Robert Doyle accompanied C.N.A.C. Captain Herbert MacWilliams (TIME, Nov. 25) on his last two flights into embattled Suchow. Doyle's report...
When he chooses, Ben Nicholson paints charming and recognizable still lifes and landscapes. He doesn't always choose. He also happens to be Britain's most revered abstractionist. For conservatives, there's the rub. In a book on Nicholson newly published in England, Art Critic Herbert Read rubs it in. You can't admire the still lifes and abhor the abstractions, admonishes Read, "without confessing to a prejudice that has nothing to do with the essential qualities...
...complained as much about Harvard and "the taste of academic straw" as Adams did.. There was Barrett Wendell, who looked as if he might have stepped out of the court of Queen Elizabeth; pudgy Josiah Royce ("the Rubens of Philosophy," William James called him); and Philosopher George Herbert Palmer, who once told a student: "It will hurt nothing at your age to have a nervous breakdown. As a matter of fact, I sometimes think it would be a good thing . . ." And there was Charles Eliot Norton, the unappeasable pursuer of beauty. After his death, students guessed that he, would...