Word: inventor
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Method and reason of a brand new precaution against hemorrhage of childbirth were last week succinctly set forth by the inventor, Physiologist Maurice B. Visscher of the University of Illinois College of Medicine. Said Professor Visscher: "Taken from the patient during the last stages of pregnancy, when she has stored UP a healthy surplus of rich blood, the reserve blood is treated with sodium citrate to prevent clotting and preserved by electric refrigeration for possible use at any time before, during or after childbirth The principal advantage of the banked blood method obviously is one of speed in supplying immediate...
...have been listed in the various print societies' Best-Prints-of-the-Year selections. He once sold 32 pictures at a crack to Archer M. Huntington. He is one of the few U. S. painters whose works are included in the great collection of irascible Albert C. Barnes, inventor of Argyrol. His pictures are generally as admired by the art world as they are unknown to the U. S. public. Yet the most important fact about Painter Max Kuehne is that he has paid his bills, kept off relief, put a son through college and furnished a comfortable Manhattan...
Died. Dr. Francis Le Roy Satterlee, 54, U. S. pioneer in x-ray photography and research, inventor of many a radio reception device; of heart disease and x-ray burns for which he had undergone 44 skin-grafting operations and amputations; in Montauk...
...Rome last week the inventor of wireless asked a chance to address British radio listeners on the war, was turned down by British Broadcasting Corporation, wrathfully set out for London to confront members of His Majesty's Government with the fact that free speech had been denied to Guglielmo Marconi...
...late Alfred Bernhard Nobel, inventor of dynamite, made much of his money in munitions, provided in his will that the prize fund should be transferred to "safe securities," which the executors have interpreted to mean first mortgage bonds. The Peace Prize is awarded by a committee chosen by the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), while the other four prizes (Literature, Medicine, Physics, Chemistry) are determined by Swedes. Three weeks ago the Committee took pained notice of a story in the Schwarze Korps, official organ of Adolf Hitler's special guard, warning the Peace Prize Committee "not to provoke the German people...