Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brag or Fight. Robert Hooke was an able, mechanically talented scientist who suffered the misfortune to be a 17th-Century contemporary of the great Isaac ("Falling Apple") Newton. He was embittered by having to live in the shadow of Newton's greater glory. But frustrated Robert Hooke saw, named, described and pictured living cells, and he appears to have been the first to do so. Thereafter numbers of other scientists saw and studied cells.** For a long time the mysterious little chambers of life were called by various names, such as "vesicles," "utricles" and "globules." Then Hooke...
...Masses went on to say last week, was not a Russian, but an Austrian, whose fiercest battles were "waged about a roulette wheel in Paris." Furthermore, said the New Masses, General Krivitsky had not even written the Satevepost articles, but had had them ghosted for him by Isaac Don Levine, anti-Stalinist biographer of Stalin and some-time writer for the Hearst press...
...18th Century, and his followers, Rowlandson, Gillray, the Cruikshanks et al., set the pace for the French. In their work the age of the first three King Georges and the Regency appears unmatched in history for sheer beef-eating, blowzy, bullyragging license. Famous caricatures in the show included Isaac Cruikshank's credited Belly Piece Shop in which various court ladies of marked posterior inflation are being fitted to boot with anterior pads labeled one, two, four, six and nine months...
...real name is André Isaac. He is a singer, an actor sometimes at the Deux Anes (Two Asses) theatre, author and editor of the funpaper L'Os à Moelle (Marrowbone). Each weekday at 13 h. 5 ( 1:05 p. m.) for the last year he has sent Parisians by the hundreds rummaging high & low for varying collections of oddments, to be produced within two hours at a designated rendezvous. An open street is usually necessary for the arriving candidates and their equipages. This was evident from the start, when the first after noon hundreds of participants piled into...
...Both Isaac Cubitt Raymond Atkin and William Arthur Mitchell got their start with the Traders Bank of Canada as junior clerks (i.e., office boys with standing). Both stayed with the bank when it was merged with the Royal Bank of Canada; both became inspectors. In 1925, when J. P. Morgan needed two good commercial bankers, both were hired. Both went to live in New Jersey, to play golf together on week ends. In 1931 both were upped to the newly created title of manager. Both gained prestige when Morgan gave up underwriting and concentrated on commercial banking...