Word: ida
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible elements charted by Mendeléeff, five remained to be found until last week, when a German Curie, Dr. Ida Tacke of Berlin, assisted by Drs. Walter Noddack and Otto Berg, proclaimed their discovery of numbers 43 and 75, which they promptly named "masurium," after the East Prussian lakes where General Von Hindenburg defeated the Russians in 1915, and "rhenium," after the River Rhine...
With the thesis that "Uncle Sam Needs a Wife," finding a thousand flaws in our man-made government, a woman wrote a book.* It was calculated to show how the feminine touch would set things right. One of the chapters was titled, "Wanted-A Female Moses." Ida Clyde Clarke, the writer, found that women needed a leader-one chosen not by men, but by themselves-and proceeded likewise to state what, in her belief, constitutes the inadequacy of certain women leaders of today...
...France, Ida Rubenstein "the superb," lion huntress, onetime fiancée of Poet D'Annunzio of Italy, organized a charity fête to finance a search for Amundsen and Ellsworth in the Pourquoi Pas, ice-worthy ship of Explorer Jean Charcot...
...beginning of the Century, he had gone abroad, obtained introductions to two young English men of letters, come home and published, before other U. S. magazines, the works of Rudyard Kipling and James M. Barrie. He remembered the spectacular series of articles he had asked Miss Ida M. Tarbell to write, on all the unpleasant things there were to be known about John D. Rockefeller and the Oil Trust. That series, in 1903, had put McClure's at the head of the monthly field...
...Ida A. R. Wylie, Little Fraulein and the Big World. Editor W. F. Bigelow. Good Housekeeping...