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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other mathematicians have solved the problem but only more complicated instruments. Last in Boston, George Hurd, retired manufacturer, and Professor Harold A. Zager, Boston College mathematician, claimed that Descartes was wrong, that after ten years' study they had not only trisected but had divided arcs into other fractions with ruler & compass. They would not describe their method until it is righted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Arc Trisected? | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

...medical profession is concerned, that shrewd controversy raised by Howard W. Ambruster, Manhattan importer of crude ergot, and Dr. Henry Hurd Rusby, Columbia University pharmacologist, as to the purity of ergot used obstetrically in the U. S., is ended. The American Medical Association last week published a 10,000-word review of the entire dispute from its beginning in 1927 (when Mr. Ambruster secured a "corner" on Spanish ergot) through the Senate investigation of the Food, Drug & Insecticide Administration last summer (TIME, July 14 et ante).* In passing the report revived its old comment on Dr. Rusby: "His experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ergot Controversy, Ended | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

President Nicholas Murray-Butler of Columbia University last week published the valedictory of Dr. Henry Hurd Rusby, 75, retiring after 26 years as Dean of Columbia's Faculty of Pharmacy. An old-school man to the end, in his age a bitter crusader against what he calls the Drug Trust, Dean Rusby wrote: "Instead of manufacturing his galencials as in times past, he [the pharmacist] now depends almost wholly on the manufacturer. . . . With his legitimate professional occupation thus reduced, the pharmacist turns to merchandising and carries it into lines that are professionally degradinG...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dean Rusby's Valedictory | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

...Congress ended its session last week (see p. 16), a Senate committee concluded its month-long investigation of the Food, Drug & Insecticide Administration of the Department of Agriculture. Director Walter Gilbert Campbell of the Administration had asked for the probing. His accusers were Henry Hurd Rusby, retired dean of Columbia University's Department of Pharmacy, and Howard W. Ambruster. Manhattan crude drug importer who has lost much money on Spanish ergot which large U. S. drug manufacturers would not buy from him because they believed that he had tried to victimize them with a Spanish ergot corner (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ergot (concluded) | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

...Abdian '30, R. M. Alt '32, W. P. Chapman '31, P. H. Cohen '32, D.I. Cooke '31, R. B. Eckles '32, C. F. Elliot '31, W. E. Esber '31, F. C. Fiechter Jr. '32, H. C. Friend '31, J. F. Harding '30, G. W. Harrington '30, J. K. Hurd '30, J.S. Jennison '30, David Lloyd '31, P. C. Reardon '32, A. B. Rood '31, J. M. Swigert '30, J. E. Willard '30, A. A. Windecker '32, and J. R. Wolfe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLANS FOR ANNUAL H.Y.P. DEBATE ARE ANNOUNCED | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

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