Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ansermet had been the first to interest Stravinsky and Ravel in jazz, which he had picked up on his first U.S. tour. Now he is convinced that "the days of jazz are over. It has made its contribution to music. Now in itself it is merely monotonous...
Like many another physician, small, bright-eyed Dr. Frank Gollan has an incurable interest in a disease that he himself has suffered from. At the age of three in Czechoslovakia, where he was born 38 years ago, Dr. Gollan had an attack of infantile paralysis. He survived uncrippled. Until he was 17, he planned to be a concert pianist, but a doctor-uncle attracted him to medicine. He escaped from Czechoslovakia just ahead of the Nazis in 1938: his parents died in Auschwitz gas chambers...
...interest in his own disease was still strong; he carried on polio research as "a hobby." Last week he reported to the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine the results of his hobby: he has isolated a polio virus 99.96% pure. Best previous results: a virus 80 to 95% pure, isolated at Stanford University a year ago (TIME...
Small Beginnings. Long before Krug or Forrestal, the oil industry had seen the revolution on the way and started to get ready. The Texas Co. has a 38% interest in Carthage Hydrogl, Inc., is now building a $20 million plant at Brownsville, Tex. to produce synthetic gasoline and oil daily from natural gas. Standard Oil Co. of Indiana will shortly begin construction of an $80 million synthetic plant in the Hugoton gas fields of Kansas. The two plants will produce 14,000 barrels of oil daily...
...trying to discover the laws that govern its making, the impulses that give it birth." So when Professor Abbott, a true son of his times, took over the Lockwood Memorial Library of the University of Buffalo, he struggled to find some up-to-date way of expressing his passionate interest in poetry...